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Author:
Date: 1922-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Aozora Bunko-1, Aozora Bunko-2, Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-JA
Language: Japanese
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藪の中?Yabu no Naka
Title Record # 1756051
Author:
芥川龍之介?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Date: 1922-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Aozora Bunko-1, Aozora Bunko-2, Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-JA
Language: Japanese
Note: This story was first published in January 1922 in the monthly literary magazine 新潮, Shinchō, "New tide".
The original Japanese title of this story, 藪の中, is transcribed as Yabu no naka in the Revised Hepburn notation, and means literally "in the middle of the bush". It is composed of 藪, yabu, "bush", "thicket", の, no, "in" and 中, naka, "middle".
Synopsis: This is an early modernist short story, as well as a blending of the modernist search for identity with themes from historic Japanese literature, and as such is perhaps the iconic work of Akutagawa's career. It presents three varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth [from Wikipedia].
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Rashomon and Other Stories | 1952-00-00 |
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
Charles E. Tuttle | 95 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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Adaptations: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films | 2005-04-26 | ed. Stephanie Harrison | Three Rivers Press | 1-4000-5314-5 | $15.95?$: US dollar |
xix+ 619 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | ||
A Grown-up's Halloween: Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish | 2006-10-01 | ed. Yuri Rasovsky | Blackstone Audiobooks | 0-7861-6037-3 | $45.00?$: US dollar |
audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks |
anth | |||
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories?Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories |
2006-10-31 |
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) | 978-0-14-303984-6 | $15.00?$: US dollar |
li+ 268 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Yoshihiro Tatsumi | |
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories?Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories |
2009-03-03 |
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa?Ryunosuke Akutagawa |
Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics) | 978-0-14-044970-9 | $16.00?$: US dollar |
li+ 268 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll |