The Life of a Stupid Man

'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927). Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories is also available in Penguin Classics.

Product details

• Authors: ryunosuke Akutagawa
• Assisted by: Jay Rubin (Translation), Rubin Jay (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9780141397726
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139772-6
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 161 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary