Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Rampo, Edogawa - 2012

Paperback. Very Good.

University of Hawaii Press, 2012-12-31. paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant for the grotesque and the bizarre to explore the boundaries of conventional thought. Best known as the founder of the modern Japanese detective novel, Ranpo wrote for a youthful audience, and a taste for playacting and theatre animates his stories. His writing is often associated with the era of ero guro nansense (erotic grotesque nonsense), which accompanied the rise of mass culture and mass media in urban Japan in the 1920s. Characterised by an almost lurid fascination with simulacra and illusion, the era's sensibility permeates Ranpo's first major work and one of his finest achievements, Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Panoramato kidan),published in 1926. Ranpo's panorama island is filled with cleverly designed optical illusions: a staircase rises into the sky; white feathered "birds" speak in women's voices and offer to serve as… Read More

Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. 160 pages. 8.30x0.50x5.40 inches.

University of Hawaii Press, 2012-12-31. paperback. Used: Good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.