Posts by: Carlene Bauer

Mandarins

On March 23, 2008 By Carlene Bauer

By Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Translated by Charles De Wolf; Archipelago Books, 2007)

Everyone knows the name of the man who made Rashomon. But no one knows the name of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the Japanese literary legend responsible for the stories on which Akira Kurosawa based his film. Reading Mandarins, a new collection of fifteen Akutagawa [...]

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