In Dreams: The Very Short Stories of Ryã «nosuke Akutagawa

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Deftly translated by Ryan Choi, these stories and vignettes (plus two short plays) all have radical brevity in common, demonstrating that Akutagawa was an early and prescient master of what we now call "flash" fiction and non-fiction. With a striking economy of means, the author gives us vivid, eccentric, feeling characters, young and elderly, learned and unpolished, urban and rural. Akutagawa's observations and notes €" on dreams, on being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911475568
• ISBN13: 9781911475569
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Paper + Ink
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"