β Scribed by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
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This collection of short stories includes "In a Grove", a psychologically sophisticated tale about murder, rape, and suicide; "Rashomon", the story of a thief scared into honesty by an encounter with a ghoul; and "Kesa and Morito", the story of man driven to kill someone he doesn't hate by a lover whom he doesn't love. "There are enough Swiftian touches in Akutagawa to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. But Akutagawa's artistic integrity kept him from joining his contemporaries in the easy social criticism or n.;PREFACE; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; IN A GROVE; RASHOMON; YAM GRUEL; THE MARTYR; KESA AND MORITO; THE DRAGON.
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