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Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the known facts and events of the writer's life and inner world--birth to a mother who was mentally ill and a father who died shortly thereafter; his own battles with mental illness; his complicated reaction to the beginnings of modernization and Westernization of Japan; his short but prolific writing career; his suicide at the age of thirty-five--and creates a stunningly atmospheric and deeply moving fiction that tells its own story of a singularly brilliant mind.
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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
2019, Faber & Faber, Incorporated, Faber & Faber
in English
0571333648 9780571333646
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Patient X: the case-book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
2018
in English
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0525521771 9780525521778
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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
2018, Faber & Faber, Limited
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0571333656 9780571333653
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2018, Faber & Faber, Limited
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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
2018, Faber & Faber, Limited
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