Friends
Author
Original Work
Translator
Language
Year
1969
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
94
ISBN
9780394173122
An absurdist drama about the gradual destruction of the individual. A family enters the apartment of a young man and announces that they will save him from his loneliness by living with him. Slowly, they destroy everything, in the cheerful psychotic name of "brotherly love".— Google Books
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- The Guardianby David Peace · Sep 2007
<p>Haunted by his mother's madness, insomnia and self-loathing, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of Japan's leading literary figures, killed himself at 35. But not before a final creative outpouring, says David Peace.</p>
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