In a Grove

In a Grove

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 29/05/2019

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"In a Grove" (藪の中 Yabu no Naka) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; it first appeared in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for the plot of his award-winning movie Rashōmon.


"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story, as well as a blending of the modernist search for identity with themes from historic Japanese literature, and as such is perhaps the iconic work of Akutagawa's career. It presents three varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth.

ISBN:
1230003250280
1230003250280
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
29-05-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
EnvikaBook

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