The Essential Akutagawa: Twenty-Two Short Stories by the Japan's Master Storyteller
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Richard Medhurst · 2025 · book
"Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." --Chris Power, The Guardian Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is known as "the Father of the Japanese short story" --he wrote 150 stories during his brief career and is widely acclaimed as Japan's master storyteller. This new anthology contains the most complete collection of Akutagawa stories ever published in English, including new translations of well-known classics as…
