Patient X : the case-book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa / David Peace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peace, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927--Fiction.

Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke.

Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, 1892-1927.

English fiction--21st century.

English fiction.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber & Faber, 2018.

Summary:

"Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927. These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen -Inspired and informed by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act and obsession of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own."--Publisher's description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296).

Other Format:

Electronic version: Peace, David. Patient X.

ISBN:

0571336248

9780571336241

057133346X

9780571333462

OCLC:

993636706