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Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's leading literary figures in the Taisho period in Japan. Regarded as the father of the Japanese short story, he produced over 150 in his short lifetime and is renowned as a pre-eminent prose stylist and modernist whose work ranges from the fantastical and supernatural to the psychological and formally unconventional. Haunted by the fear that he would inherit his mother's madness, his mental health deteriorated rapidly towards the end of his life and he committed suicide aged 35 by taking an overdose of barbital.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Books

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Kappa

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Murder in the Age of Enlightenment

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Rashomon and Other Stories book cover

Rashomon and Other Stories

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Rashomon and Other Stories book cover

Rashomon and Other Stories

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Mandarins

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

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