Publisher's Synopsis
Lose your integrity or starve to death? Run away or stay? However, even if you persist to the end, you may only end up in vain in the end - Japan's "short story genius" Akutagawa Ryunosuke's 17 masterpieces will help you see the complexity and reality of human nature. Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Japan's short story genius, the supreme Japanese pure literature The award "Akutagawa Prize" is named after him. Haruki Murakami compared him to Fitzgerald, and even Osamu Dazai obsessively wrote his name repeatedly in his notebook. His career as a writer lasted only eleven years, and was hailed by historians as "the most gorgeous existence" in the history of Japanese literature.
