Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Akutagawa died at thirty-five and left behind the finest short stories in Japanese literature. Rashomon puts a starving servant under a gate piled with corpses and makes him choose. In a Grove gives seven accounts of one murder that cannot all be true.

The collection also has Hell Screen, in which an artist demands to see real suffering before he can paint it, and the late autobiographical pieces written as his mind was failing. Jay Rubin's translations are the standard, with an introduction by Murakami.

The two stories Kurosawa combined into the film Rashomon, plus sixteen more. The essential Akutagawa.

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