Though he died by his own hand at the age of 35, novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa's accomplishments were such that, even after so brief a writing career, Japan's most prestigious literary accolade — the ...
RASHOMON AND SEVENTEEN OTHER STORIES, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Jay Rubin, introduction by Haruki Murakami. London: Penguin Classics, 2006, 268 pp., £9.99 (paper). In what is still the ...
Eighty years ago, in January 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, his wife and his youngest son waited for the train that would take them back to Tokyo. Akutagawa and his family had been away for almost a year ...
Is “writing” quite the right word to describe what David Peace does these days? Arguably, the most enjoyable passage in Red Or Dead, his pulverisingly repetitive novel about how Bill Shankly made ...
On the banks of the Lotus Pond in Paradise, Buddha sees Christ kneeling beside the water, weeping, staring into the deep pool where he is watching the Japanese author Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) ...
“How can any of us escape this world of ours, except for faith, madness or death?” wonders the protagonist of David Peace’s 10th novel, a fictional imagining of the life of Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
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