Detective & Mystery
Billiards, Mahjong and Detective Stories: Essays and Reminiscences
撞球・麻雀・探偵小説 ほか
Nanbu Shūtarō · 1916–1930 · translated by Valentin Sarić
Eleven essays and reminiscences by Nanbu Shūtarō (1892-1936) of the Taishō literary world: mahjong in the twenties, a billiards tale about writers, the charm of detective fiction, writers on film, a critique of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, his first published story, a boyhood in photography, a Shanghai opium den, and a hallucination. Complete, with endnotes.
90pages
1916–1930first published
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