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Title details for Mandarins by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Available

Mandarins

Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Charles DeWolf
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Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."

Formats

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1070
  • Text Difficulty:6-9

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