Name: Patient x: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Author: Peace, David
ISBN: 9780525564119

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Patient x: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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Physical Book

Author

David Peace

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780525564119

Synopsis "Patient x: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa"

In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace--acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero--weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X delves into Akutagawa's rich and complicated private life: his fears and battles with mental illness; his complex reaction to the Westernization of Japan; his exacting creative process; and his suicide, weaving these facets into a hauntingly evocative portrait. But Patient X is more than a paean to one remarkable writer: it is also an incandescent exploration of the act and obsession of writing itself, and of the role of the artist in times that darkly mirror our own.

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