Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a genius of Japanese short stories. The "Akutagawa Prize", the highest award for pure literature in Japan, is named after him. He is a "national writer" in the eyes of Haruki Murakami. Osamu Dazai obsessively wrote his name repeatedly in his notebooks, and Lu Xun translated his works into Chinese.
This book selects 17 popular classic novels of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Rashomon", "Tangerine", "Kanosho", "Mori Sensei" and "Abai".
One evening during the Great Famine, a fired servant took shelter from the rain under the Rashomon Gate. Desperate to starve to death or to survive by any means? When he was struggling, he suddenly found an old woman pulling out the dead man's hair at the city gate. A wave of anger and disgust swept over him, and he jumped up to question the old woman. The old woman argued that she had pulled out her hair to make wigs to make money to support herself. At the same time, she faltered and said that the woman whose hair was pulled out used snake meat as dried fish and sold it to survive... The servant listened coldly, and the thoughts of evil and kindness gradually disappeared. He took away the old man's clothes, kicked her to the ground, and disappeared into the vast night. "Rashomon" writes about the hidden truth of human nature. Every word of "Rashomon" is vivid. However, after reading this collection of novels, kind people are more willing to live towards the sun and cherish the beauty! - Star News
