Patient X : the case-book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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Published
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2018.
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Peace, D.
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Peace, D.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Peace, D.
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Peace, D.
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Published
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2018.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303-308]).
Description
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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Peace, D. (2018). Patient X: the case-book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (First American edition.). Alfred A Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Peace, David. 2018. Patient X: The Case-book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Alfred A Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Peace, David. Patient X: The Case-book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Alfred A Knopf, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Peace, David. Patient X: The Case-book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa First American edition., Alfred A Knopf, 2018.
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