{"product_id":"9781462900114","title":"Rashomon and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surface.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of six short stories, most of which have never been translated before, includes \"In a Grove\", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; \"Rashomon\", the story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; and \"Kesa and Morito\", the story of man driven to kill someone he doesn't hate by a lover whom he doesn't love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in the easy social criticism or naive introspection…What he did was question the values of his society, dramatize the complexities of human psychology, and study, with a Zen taste for paradox, the precarious balance of illusion and reality.\"—Howard Hibbett, from the Introduction of\u003ci\u003e Rashomon and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClassic Japanese stories include:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn a Grove\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRashomon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYam Gruel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Martyr\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKesa and Morito\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dragon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tuttle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179354603760,"sku":"9781462900114","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462900114_p0.jpg?v=1763679495","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462900114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}