Ryunosuke Akutagawa

[Saifullah Samurai]

Has anyone read Rashomon and 17 other stories?
published by Penguin Classics

Ryunosuke was a genius at short stories, I particularly enjoyed "In a Bamboo Grove" with the contradictory statements relating to a discovery of a body found amongs the bamboo and cedar. The murdered mans account was the most vivid.

But the best story no doubt - and probably the best short story i have ever read... had to be "Hell Screen"... wow, the impact was as if i read an entire novel after i finished that, with such character development and what an ending!

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

Here's a little shameless self-PR for a translation I did when I had free time of one of Akutagawa's stories here on Jref.

窶ｰﾅ停?伉絶?堙??ｫ窶凪?堋〜ﾅ?hﾂ静ｬ窶板ｴ窶掀窶ｰﾃｮﾂ〜 Akutagawa Ryunosuke

 

[RevengeBabyYeah]

Thanks alot Saifullah I've been meaning to catch up on Akutagawa for a long time. Now I know where to start. How would you describe his writing?
Mikawa- I'll check out your translation too.