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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa


Japan (1892 - 1927)

RyŪnosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese writer active in Taisho period Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story", and is noted for his superb style and finely detailed stories that explore the darker side of human nature.
 

 
Novels
   Kappa (1949)
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Collections
   Tales Grotesque and Curious (1930)
   Hell Screen (1948)
   The Three Treasures (1951)
   Rashomon (1952)
   The Beautiful and the Grotesque (1964)
   Tu Tze-chun (1965)
   Japanese Short Stories (1970)
   Cogwheels (1995)
   The Essential Akutagawa (1999)
   Mandarins (2007)
   A Fool's Life (2007)
   Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (2009)
   Murder in the Age of Enlightenment (2020)
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Books containing stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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Great Japanese Stories (2024)
(Parallel Texts)
edited by
Jay Rubin
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Pets (2020)
edited by
Jordan Castro

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