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This fascinating collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa made famous Akutagawa's disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives. Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created... read more
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“His existence no more entered their vision than the air itself. His appearance caused no more ripple of unrest than a drop of water in the Japan Sea.”
Yam Gruel
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A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.
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Man will make his life worth living, if he tosses a wave aloft high up into the starry sky, o'er life's dark main of worldly cares, to mirror in its crystal foam the light of the moon yet to rise.
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He remarked once that words must yield more than the bare dictionary meanings; he had a poet's feeling for their shapes and flavors, as well as their ambiguities,
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You kill people with your power, with your money. Sometimes you kill them on the pretext of working for their good. It's true they don't bleed. They are in the best of health, but all the same you've killed them. It's hard to say who is a greater sinner, you or me.
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Therefore, are not those who know the last of Lorenzo those who know the whole of her life?
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Time and tide wait for no man. A year passed like a snowflake that falls into the river, a moment white and then gone forever.
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'Then it's right if I rob you. I'd starve if I didn't.'
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Beyond this was only darkness... unknowing and unknown.
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Truly human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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Even now these words threaten to blow me headlong into the bottomless abyss of darkness.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Tokyo
- Honjo
- Kyoto
- Beijing
- China
- Sarusawa Pond
- Japan
- Strindberg
- Horikawa
- Heavenly Lord
- Tokugawa
- Naigu
- Itakura
First Sentence edit
To sketch the background and temperament of Akutagawa Ryunosuke is to risk a melancholy cliche.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Penguin Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This is book 738 of 1271 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Under Fire, and followed by The Good Soldier.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Author)
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- Jay Rubin (Translator)
- Arimasa Mori (Translator) - French translator
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Page Count: 96
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- Dewey: 813
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- Rashomon (IMDb): 1950.
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