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Mandarins : Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa [Akutagawa, Ryunosuke] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Prefiguring the vital modernist voices of the Western literary canon, Akutagawa writes with a trenchant psychological precision that exposes the shifting traditions and ironies of early twentieth-century Japan and reveals his own strained connection to it. These stories are moving glimpses into a cast of characters at odds with the society around them, singular portraits that soar effortlessly toward the universal. "What good is intelligence if you cannot discover a useful melancholy?" Akutagawa once mused. Both piercing intelligence and "useful melancholy" buoy this remarkable collection. Mandarins contains three stories published in English for the first time: "An Evening Conversation," "An Enlightened Husband," and "Winter."

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Author

Ryunosuke Akutagawa [Akutagawa, Ryunosuke]

Publisher

Archipelago Books : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780977857609

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (272 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14