The Life of a Stupid Man: Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Penguin Little Black Classics)

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an autobiographical approach that is reminiscent of dazai's no longer human but differs in the fact that it is not disguised with fabrications and under the guise of fiction. There's not a lot of action, but then I suppose there are different reasons for remembering things and it's interesting, because even though this is not a biography, but a rather poetic approach, I felt like I got to know what kind of person Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was, who unfortunately committed suicide aged 35.

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And for the third story, it was told in a little snippet but it was confusing as hell because I couldnt connect the snippets altogether even though some parts were understandable and quite interesting. Lo primero que me encontré con este libro fue con el “biombo del infierno”, el cual pasé de largo ya que ya lo leí la semana pasada en “Roshomon y otros cuentos”, luego me vi sumergida en un ambiente denso de “Los engranajes” me costó leerlo sinceramente, no estaba preparada para verme en un ambiente de depresión mezclado con un comienzo de esquizofrenia, donde las alucinaciones visuales y otros fantasmas comienzan a alterar su pensamiento. si bien es nombrado, con un casi que una sensación de repulsión ya que no tolera que la gente lo admire, no veo porqué incluir ese cuento en esta obra autobiográfica que debería permanecer como tal, por más dolorosa que fuera. By 1926, his insomnia was chronic and his fear of having inherited his mother's madness had become an obsession. He was named "Ryūnosuke" ("Dragon Offshoot") because he was born in the Year of the Dragon, in the Month of the Dragon, on the Day of the Dragon, and at the Hour of the Dragon (8 a.The short story, titled In a Bamboo Grove is set in a courthouse: a man has been murdered and the mystery behind who is his killer is unraveled as a variety of characters take the stand. Somehow, I liked this excerpt "When I kill a man, I do it with my sword, but people like you don't use swords.

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Not even love affairs or intellectual discussions could assuage the emptiness he felt more and more deeply inside himself. The moment you accept the truth in one testimony, you see it's link to the testimony of the other person and thus are forced to accept their truth.In the early hours of July 24, as a light rain finally broke the heat, Akutagawa spoke with his wife for the last time. I found that to be an interesting approach considering how this technique is often used in novels to piece the puzzle.

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That last summer of 1927, Akutagawa took part in a short publicity film at his home in Tabata, north Tokyo. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe.

In this letter, Akutagawa describes his meticulous plans for suicide; he had rejected drowning because he was a strong swimmer, death by hanging because it was unsightly. There's a recollection of memories of people in Akutagawa's life who died and a contemplation of life phrased in short sequences. Why did this one have to be born - to come into the worls like all the others, this world so full of suffering? There had also been a number of affairs and near-affairs with women, which left him with feelings of guilt. The last two pieces Akutagawa wrote before his death, and published posthumously, would prove them both right.

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The books themselves are incredibly thin but you would be surprised at the amount of content they fit. With 3 titles in this Penguin Little Black Classic, two of which are autobiographical, the author captures fleeting glimpses of the human experience. It's ironic how he declared not having lived an interesting and full life, and yet his work is all of these things. Akutagawa has a reflective and delicate way of forming his thoughts and I suspect that the beauty of his writing got lost in translation, however, this is a wild guess and I have no way of actually validating this. With this I was just dumbfounded; I’ve got nothing: no questions, no interpretations: only blankness.This book serves as a beautiful introduction to the work of Akatagawa that will make you want to read his other works, and is stunning and reflective in it’s own right. You instantly are transported to that time and place, if only for a moment, and see the world the way that he saw it then- then you move on to the next memory. I’ve read some other reviews on here about this book; I’ve even looked at scholarly summaries about it, and I just don’t see it.