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Literary Mischief
Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of his life. Behind that life, and in the midst of those tumultuous times, Ango spoke with a cutting clarity. The essays and translations included in Literary Mischief probe some of the most volatile issues of culture, ideology, and philosophy of postwar Japan. Represented among the essayists are some ...
The Nonserial Murders
Guests, invited and uninvited, converge on the mountain villa of their wealthy friend, Utagawa Kazuma, to spend the summer of 1947. Soon after the arrival of these writers, actors, and artists and their tangled relationships of love, fame, and money, the first murder victim is discovered then another and another.... The host, his guests, and an assortment of unusual police detectives struggle to find the murderer during this long, hot summer.
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Ango's Detective Casebook
A New Detective for a New AgeMeiji Era (1868-1912) -- Japan Toranosuke, the owner of a dojo for swordfighting, is also an amateur detective. He takes cases too baffling for the police to the Great Detective, Yuki Shinjuro, a handsome and brilliant man. He also explains the case to Katsu Kaishu, a man greatly admired by Toranosuke. The great intellect Kaishu tries to unravel the mystery from the comfort of his home. At the scene of the crime, Shinjuro unveils the murderer. In the final scene, Kaishu consoles himself for being wrong as usual.
The Best Japanese Short Stories
An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)! Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Junichi Watanabe are joined by three notable women writers whose works have not yet received sufficient attention--Kanoko Okamoto, Fumiko Hayashi and Yumiko Kurahashi. Highlights of this anthology include: Kafu Nagai's bittersweet portrait of a privileged family's expiring existence in "The Fox" Ango Sakaguchi's heartening celebration of postwar chaos in "One Woman and the War" Fumiko ...
Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 2
Regaining consciousness after nearly losing his life to Akutagawa, Atsushi is paralyzed by the thought of bringing more death and destruction down on the heads of his companions at the Armed Detective Agency and vows to run away. But before he can make good on his resolution, the Mafia sends Ryuurou Hirotsu of the merciless Black Lizard squad to storm their offices! Between the bomb-tossing Motojirou Kajii and the demure, kimono-wearing Kyouka Izumi, will the Mafia's literary giants close the book on Atsushi and the Armed Detective Agency for good?!
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Quinta entrega de la serie "Fotografía japonesa y literatura contemporánea. "En los viejos tiempos, antes de que la capital cambiara de Kyoto a Tokio, los cerezos eran considerados un espectáculo espantoso. Nadie las consideraba un signo de belleza. [...] Sin rastro de vida humana debajo, un cerezo en plena floración se convierte en un espectáculo temeroso." Las aterradoras fotografías de cerezos de Daido Moriyama están ambientadas en el famoso cuento de Ango Sakaguchi "In the Forest, Beneath Cherries in Full Bloom". La "belleza demoníaca de las flores de cerezo" de Moriyama y Sakaguchi se convierten en un fotolibro negro azabache de soledad sin fondo, vacío y seducción peligrosa.
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