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100 1 $aPeace, David,$eauthor.
245 10$aPatient X :$bthe case-book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa /$cDavid Peace.
250 $aFirst American edition.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A Knopf,$c2018.
300 $axi, 311 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [303-308]).
505 0 $aAfter the thread, before the thread -- Hell screens -- Repetition -- Jack the Ripper's bedroom -- A twice-told tale -- The yellow Christ -- After the war, before the war -- The exorcists -- After the disaster, before the disaster --Saint Kappa -- The spectres of Christ -- After the fact, before the fact -- Bare bones.
520 $aHaunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story In the Grove served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rash?mon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the known facts and events of the writer's life and inner world--birth to a mother who was mentally ill and a father who died shortly thereafter; his own battles with mental illness; his complicated reaction to the beginnings of modernization and Westernization of Japan; his short but prolific writing career; his suicide at the age of thirty- five--and creates a stunningly atmospheric and deeply moving fiction that tells its own story of a singularly brilliant mind.
600 10$aAkutagawa, Ryūnosuke,$d1892-1927$vFiction.