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As night fell, a general who had been kicked out by his master came to Rashomon. Born in troubled times, Rashomon has not been repaired all year round. Now it has become a terrifying place where corpses are piled up and crows gather. The family will be homeless. If he wants to survive, he has to do whatever it takes, but he can't make up his mind. When he was hesitating, he found an old woman pulling out the dead man's hair inside the door. The family general was horrified, and after careful questioning, he learned that the old woman was forced by life and had no choice but to do this. The general was greatly touched after hearing this, and finally made up his mind, snatched the old woman's clothes and fled from Rashomon without trace. The novel is exquisitely conceived and has a tortuous plot. It describes the choices made by people at the bottom of society when faced with life and death. It conveys the author's thoughts on human nature and is thought-provoking. This book collects the most representative short stories and short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Although some works have been published for nearly a hundred years, they still have tenacious vitality and have been repeatedly sought after and praised by the world. In the 1950s, "Rashomon" was put on the movie screen by Akira Kurosawa. The film of the same name won the "Oscar Award for Best Foreign Language Film" and received great praise around the world.

This book contains a total of 6 short stories by Akutagawa. "Kappa" tells the story of the Kappa Kingdom through the autobiography of patient No. 23 In the mental hospital, which is both contrary to and similar to human society. Although it is a fictional world, the clever satire and sharp criticism throughout the novel point to reality. On the contrary, it depicts the true and essential side of Japanese society in the 1920s more accurately and vividly than many realist works of the time. In the kappa country, all concepts are mocking people in real society. They understand humans better than they understand themselves. Once you master their unique language and accept their weird thoughts, after leaving this utopia, you will immediately fall into the trouble of extremely disgusting human beings. The protagonist of the story finally returned to the human world, but because he could no longer adapt to human life, he was regarded as a madman.

During a war, a servant who was kicked out of his home by his master was wondering whether to starve to death or become a robber. He happened to come to a place called Rashomon where dead bodies were piled everywhere. He plucked up the courage to go in and find some belongings. As a result, a ragged old woman was found pulling hair from the body of a young woman... "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of people and his helplessness, pessimism and despair about life.

The six stories based on ancient Japanese stories vividly show the ancient Japan written by the great writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke. When everyone only cheered for the moment when the hero ascended the altar, he offered blessings for every step of the hero's twilight years. He brought the dead bones sleeping in the dust of history back to life, and brought saints and villains to the stage at the same time. While laughing and cursing, his writing style was more compassionate than any preacher.

This book is the last volume of the complete set. It contains the last published works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke and his unpublished posthumous works. There are thirty-two short stories in total, most of which are later masterpieces of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, such as "The Ten Yuan Bill", "The Half Life of Oshimaji Shinsuke", "Horse Legs", "Niti", "Hunan Fan", "Spring Night", "The Ghost Book" and "Xuankaku Sanfang". "Yoyouso", "Kappa", "Kosenya", "A Fool's Life", etc., The contents include: "A Fool's Life" is a posthumous autobiography of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, describing his life in fifty-one fragments; in "The Ghost Book", Akutagawa Ryunosuke analyzes his family relationships and expresses his complex emotions towards his parents and adoptive parents; etc. In these autobiographical short stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa analyzes his life and explains his views on art and life.

It was horrifying when I first read it, but I couldn't help myself when I read it again. This is the charm of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's writing, which is profound and cold, and his writing is sharp. This is a story about ideals and reality. The protagonist Yoshihide's entanglement and obsession on the road of creation also alludes to Akutagawa's own thinking on the pursuit of art. Some people spend their whole lives searching for the balance between ideals and real life, and the balance with human morality; some people do not live a life without being crazy, and just to achieve the ultimate in their own eyes, they will go through fire and water without hesitation. Should one insist on the supremacy of ideals throughout his life? What choice would you make?

This book is a collection of short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, which includes ten short stories, including the most classic works such as "Rashomon", "The Nose" and "In the Bamboo Forest". In Akutagawa's writing, the spider's thread connects the paradise and hell, and the good and evil of human nature sway between this soft spider thread. Ryunosuke Akutagawa, an old soul who is too precocious and sees life too thoroughly, constantly reflects and dialectics on the issues he faces in his own life in the world, and uses his pen to penetrate human nature to reveal the root causes of the era and the troubles of society.