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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (寡黙な死骸みだらな弔い, Kamoku na shigai, Midara na tomurai) is a collection of interconnected short stories by Yōko Ogawa.It was published in Japan in 1998, [1] and in the United States by Picador in 2013.
Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect, functioning somewhat like a cross between a pun and a spoonerism. Double entendres have a rich history in Japanese entertainment (such as in kakekotoba ) [ 1 ] due to the language's large number of homographs (different meanings for a given ...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...
11 languages. العربية ... Japanese short story collections (3 C, 22 P) O. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
The book's title story, "First Person Singular", is a new story that was previously unpublished. The other seven stories in the book were first published in the literary magazine Bungakukai between summer 2018 and winter 2020. Several stories in the book were also previously published in English in The New Yorker and Granta. [26]
The kanji for manzai have been written in various ways throughout the ages. It was originally written as lit. "ten thousand years" or banzai, meaning something like "long life" (萬歳), using 萬 rather than the alternative form of the character, 万, and the simpler form 才 for 歳 (which also can be used to write a word meaning "talent, ability").
Motojirō Kajii (梶井 基次郎, Kajii Motojirō, also Motojirou Kajii, February 17, 1901 – March 24, 1932) was a Japanese writer in the early Shōwa period known for his poetic short stories. Kajii's works included Remon ( 檸檬 , " Lemon ") , "Shiro no aru machi nite" ( 城のある町にて , "In a Castle Town") .
Short story collections by Koji Suzuki (2 P) Pages in category "Japanese short story collections" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.