Hell Screen
Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Schrijver: Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Japan)
- Soort boek Japanse verhalen
- Origineel: 地獄変 / Jigokuhen (1918)
- Engelse vertaling: Jay Rubin
- Uitgever: Penguin Books
- Verschijnt: 25 augustus 2022
- Omvang: 224 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek
Recensie en waardering voor de verhalen
- “One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance.” (Haruki Murakami)
Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Akutagawa was one of the towering figures of modern Japanese literature, and is considered the father of the Japanese short story. This paradigmatic selection, which includes the stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon, showcases the terrible beauty, cynicism, sublime pain and absurd humour of his writing.