Mandarins
Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
By Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Translated by Charles DeWolf
By Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Translated by Charles DeWolf
Category: Literary Fiction
The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s Mother
Vintage Murakami
Ocean Sea
Voices from the Other World
Hector and the Secrets of Love
The Ark Sakura
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
In Concert Performance
Doing Dangerously Well
Praise
The flow of his language is the best feature of Akutagawa’s style. Never stagnant, it moves along like a living thing . . . His choice of words is intuitive, natural – and beautiful.—Haruki Murakami
The works of Akutagawa comprise, in the literary sense, an indispensable anatomy of melancholy. He was both traditional and experimental and always compelling and fearless. As Joseph Brodsky said, Akutagawa loved the world strangely. There is no writer quite like him. The translations of Charles De Wolf make for the perfect duet between languages. This is a wonderful collection. —Howard Norman
Extravagance and horror are in his work but never in his style, which is always crystal-clear.—Jorge Luis Borges
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