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Japanese short story collections (3 C, 22 P) O. Otogi-zōshi (14 P) Pages in category "Japanese short stories" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 ...
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 ...
First Person Singular (Japanese: 一人称単数, Hepburn: Ichininshō Tansū) is a collection of eight stories by Haruki Murakami. [1] It was first published on 18 July 2020 by Bungeishunjū. As its title suggests, all eight stories in the book are told in a first-person singular narrative. [2]
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.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (掌の小説, Tenohira no shōsetsu or Tanagokoro no shōsetsu [a]) is the name Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata gave to 146 short stories he wrote during his long career. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The earliest stories were published in the early 1920s, with the last appearing posthumously in 1972.
In a Grove (藪の中, Yabu no naka), also translated as In a Bamboo Grove, is a Japanese short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa first published in 1922. [1] [2] It was ranked as one of the "10 best Asian novels of all time" by The Telegraph in 2014. [3]
Men Without Women (Japanese: 女のいない男たち, Hepburn: Onna no inai otokotachi) is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death.
Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is a retelling of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done ...