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  • Published: 26 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141397733
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

The Life of a Stupid Man




Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary

'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'

  • Published: 26 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141397733
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 80

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About the author

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, one of the first Japanese modernists translated into English. He was born in Tokyo in 1892, and began writing for student publications at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo University in 1916 with an English Literature degree and worked as a teacher before becoming a full time writer in 1919. His mother had gone mad suddenly just months after his birth and he was plagued by fear of inherited insanity all his life. He killed himself in 1927.

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