藪の中 (yabu no naka)

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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藪の中 (yabu no naka)

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Language: ja

Published in: 1922

Subject(s): Short Fiction - Crime/Mystery - Psychology

Source: http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000879/files/179_15255.html

Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.

"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that b... (more)

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quillaja
quillaja
on Sep 28, 2009 at 14:49

If you need to download a version of this book with an embedded Japanese font, I've created and posted one on mobileread.com here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57751


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