02221cam a2200301 i 4500 354527773 TxAuBib 20180917120000.0 180803s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780525521778 26.95 0525521771 26.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Peace, David. Patient X [BOOK] : the case-book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa / David Peace. First American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. xi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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. 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 Rashōmon, 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. 20180917. Akutagawa, Rynosuke 1892-1927. Authors, Japanese Fiction. Biographical fiction.