Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Short stories. Gift book bound in leather

Akutagawa Ryunoske is one of the most famous writers of Japan of the XX century. The most subtle psychologist, the owner of a bright visionary gift, a brilliant novelist, he combined the European and eastern worlds with his work.

He was born in Tokyo on the morning of March 1, 1892, at the Dragon hour of the Dragon day, and therefore he was named Ryunoske, because the semantic hieroglyph of this name " ryu "means " dragon". He receives an initial and very thorough cultural training in the house of his adoptive father, since childhood he has been fond of reading Japanese and Chinese classics. In 1913, Akutagawa entered the Department of English Literature at Tokyo Imperial University and soon began his first experiments in fiction. Historical novels about the paradoxes of psychology ("Rasemon Gate", "Nose", "Sweet Potato porridge") won the recognition of readers and publishers and promoted Akutagawa to the ranks of the best authors of that time.

The collection includes the most significant works of the author, both already published in Russian and published for the first time, which reflect the Japanese reality of the first three decades of the XX century, works that testify to the writer's rejection of the bourgeois morality of modern society, about hatred of militarism.