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Classical in form, prestige, spare and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- First published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, PENGUIN GROUP
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141397733
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Subjects
About Ryūnosuke Akutagawa · 1892–1927
Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him.[
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