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| Original Title: | 藪の中 [Yabu no naka] ASIN B0034KYEG4 |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Kindle Edition | Pages: 14 pages Rating: 4.17 | 1496 Users | 136 Reviews
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| Title | : | In a Grove |
| Author | : | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 14 pages |
| Published | : | (first published 1922) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Classics. Fiction. Mystery. Cultural. Japan |
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"In a Grove" (藪の中, Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first appearing in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for his award-winning movie Rashōmon."In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven 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.
The story is often praised as being among the greatest in Japanese literature.
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Ratings: 4.17 From 1496 Users | 136 ReviewsWeigh Up Based On Books In a Grove
Simplicity is ever so complex. I have to admit that I read this short story mainly because of Kurosawa's Rashomon, which I consider one of the best movies by the best filmmakers in the history of the moving picture which, despite its age and style as we see it with our so-called modern eyes, transcends both time and place. I first did not like this short story, and gave it two stars, mainly because, as they are by definition, short stories are short and I wanted to keep on reading and was leftRead as part of my binge on Japanese writers (especially Akutagawa), This excellent short story brings into question the accuracy of the human perception and fully illustrates our tendency to lie.Akutagawa excels in examining the darker side of our nature, and the great thing about this story is he doesn't really provide the reader with a distinction between what are the truths and what are merely fabrications. We get certain information, and it's up to us to form the puzzle and make out the
This story is contained in one or two of the anthologies of Akutagawa's short stories. The easiest to get hold of might be Rashamon and Other Stories or Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories.I'm hovering on the brink of giving this particular short story 5 stars, just for the premise alone. ( Having more than one protagonist (or no specific protagonist at all) , and the differing viewpoints that these protagonsists have on the same set of events.) The translation also came across as a lot more
One novel but as if I have read several stories.
Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott I felt this story was not really about different perspectives on a crime, distorted by panic and shoddy memory. You don't forget or misremember a fact like stabbing and killing a guy (or not). And yet there are multiple killers admitting to doing their task individually?I think this is more of a story about the depths of the human psyche, which has its own reasons to deceive... take blame for crimes undone or
In a Grove, a short story written by Ryunosuke, one of the protagonists, Tajomaru, says Killing isnt a matter of such great consequence (2). Despite his dialogue that, the biggest crime is murder. In the short story, the story begins with a murder case by notorious brigand called Tajomaru and the story ends with an open closure that reader can infer who kills Takehiko. However, the problem in this short book is that each confession and statement of three people, Tajomaru, Masago, and Takehiko is
There are people who might revel in confusion and find it a rich vein in which to examine the human psyche and its relation to truth. I am not one of them.This might explain why I did not buy into what Akutagawa was trying to put across. The concept that there are multiple truths to a particular event and each version has equal weight depending on the observer. I also did not like how casually the subject of rape was treated. Maybe it was because the book was set in the early 20th century and
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