内容紹介
This collection of short stories includes "In a Grove", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "Rashomon", the story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; and "Kesa and Morito", the story of man driven to kill someone he doesn't hate by a lover whom he doesn't love.
著者について
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was the author of over 100 short stories. Described as one of the best-read men of his generation, he received a degree in English literature at Tokyo Imperial University and published translations by Anatole France and W.B. Yeats. Two of his short stories from this collection became the basis of of the award-winning movie Rashomon by famed director Akira Kurosawa. In 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa committed suicide at the age of thirty-five.
