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02449aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 4AC06646B71A11E8B5D0B56797128E48 003 SILO 005 20190328032346 008 171130s2018 nyua b 000 f eng d 020 $a 0525521771 020 $a 9780525521778 035 $a (OCoLC)1013525517 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d GK8 $d OCLCF $d HRF $d ZQP $d CGP $d GAP $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a PR6066.E116 $b P38 2018 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Peace, David, $e author. 245 10 $a Patient X : $b the case-book of RyuÌnosuke Akutagawa / $c David Peace. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A Knopf, $c 2018. 300 $a xi, 311 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 505 0 $a After 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 $a Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer RyuÌnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film RashoÌmon, 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [303-308]). 600 10 $a Akutagawa, RyuÌnosuke, $d 1892-1927 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Experimental fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023944.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20181117010415.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180913010055.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4AC06646B71A11E8B5D0B56797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search