The Life of a Stupid Man: Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Penguin Little Black Classics)

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He tended to think that Goethe’s title ‘Poetry and Truth’ could serve for anyone’s autobiography, but he knew that not everyone is moved by literature. Tanizaki had taken exception to comments Akutagawa had made in a series of critical essays entitled "Literary, all too Literary".

The Life of a Stupid Man (Penguin Little Black Classics) The Life of a Stupid Man (Penguin Little Black Classics)

More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. The first fictional story retells a murder scenario solely through the eyes of the witnesses and participants, which was a very interesting perspective. And for the third story, it was told in a little snippet but it was confusing as hell because I couldnt connect the snippets altogether even though some parts were understandable and quite interesting. With 3 titles in this Penguin Little Black Classic, two of which are autobiographical, the author captures fleeting glimpses of the human experience. In conclusion this book will leave the reader wanting, there is no fulfilment here only emptiness a sense having read NOTHING.Not even love affairs or intellectual discussions could assuage the emptiness he felt more and more deeply inside himself. He disagreed with Akutagawa's claim that the Japanese novel needed more poetic qualities, reflecting an "observant eye" and a "sensitive heart". An anthology of three short stories, which two stories mainly revolves on the author himself, making it an autobiography leading to his death.

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Wiping off any bias you might have formed from the little you have been told as a juror's responsibility is to observe and judge without any preconceived bias towards or against the people involved. It was to escape these personal and professional pressures that Akutagawa fled Tokyo for a period of recuperation in his wife's village. Akutagawa published the story Rashōmon in the magazine Teikoku bungaku (Imperial Literature) in 1915. At a crowded news conference, Kume read aloud from Akutagawa's suicide note: "I am now living in an icy clear world of morbid nerves . After graduating from Tokyo University, Akutagawa earned a reputation as a highly skilled stylist whose stories reinterpreted classical works and historical incidents from a distinctly modern standpoint.I’m not sure I’m the right audience for it because although these short stories have some essence in them, I felt lost after having read the book, especially the last story.