Conversation with the God of Wandering. Akutagawa R.

If there is a desire to understand the Japanese soul and mentality, you need to read the small prose of Akutagawa Ryunoske. Read slowly and thoughtfully and re-read again and again, capturing hints and subtexts and finding under the clean surface the hidden depths of meanings.

This collection includes works of different years-novels and very short, laconic stories and miniatures in Japanese. , which is implied (and, accordingly, read) much more than written. Serious and ironic, but invariably elegant stylizations for medieval prose, in which Akutagawa still has no equal among Japanese writers, sad and ironic fairy tales and parables and texts in a more Europeanized genre of psychological realism, which is always a completely refracted by the author under a completely national angle...