Episode 20 - Rashōmon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Literal Fiction Book Club

English - September 06, 2020 00:17 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 19.1 - Broken Commandment by Tōson Shimazaki

Next Episode: Episode 21.1 - Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

This week we discuss a collection of short stories, Rashōmon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa was considered a renegade of his time and had a prolific, if short lived, career as a writer. Born in 1882 and dying by suicide in 1927, he wrote in the Taisho period and rejected the main schools of literary thought of his time. He is considered the “father of the Japanese short story”, having produced 150 in his life. His story In A Grove was directly used for Akira Kirosawa’s film Rashomon.

Next week we're reading the first part of Snow Country by Yasnuari Kawabata.

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