Gate Rasomon

For the Russian reader, the name Akutagawa is inextricably linked with the great film by Akira Kurosawa, shot according to the story of Akutagawa "in the more one, and the name received from his other story," Gate Rasomon ". "Rasomon" has become a world symbol, and the Japanese classic Ryunoske Akutagawa (1892-1927) entered the circle of favorite writers of the Russian intelligentsia. He was absolutely his own because he received a feeding of creativity from Russian sources. The story "Battatical Porridge" is inspired by Gogol"s story "Overcoat", "Nose" - Gogol’s story of the same name, and the “Garden” is Chekhov’s play "Cherry Garden". In the story "Waldshnop" the main characters are Tolstoy and Turgenev. And from Dostoevsky a lot of Akutagawa was useful - shortly before the suicide, the written novel is called the "life of an idiot". But let"s resurrect his image in memory of the genius in minutes not weakness, but the strength, re -reading, for example, the story "in more often" - "A striking literary work, completely unique in the history of literature, which raised outright alologism to the highest artistic level" (Arkady Strugatsky) .
Translation from Japanese Arkady Strugatsky, Lyudmila Ermakova, Natalia Feldman-Conrad.

The accompanying article by Alisa Ganieva
Ganieva Alisa Arkadyevna - prose writer, essayist, laureate of the “Debut” and "Triumph" prizes, finalist of the Yuri Kazakov Prizes for the best story of the year (2010), named after Ivan Petrovich. Belkina for the best story of the year (2010), "Yasnaya Polyana" (2013), "Russian Bouquer" (2015) The author of the books "Salam you, Dalgat!" (2010), "Festive Mountain" (2012), "Bride and Bride" (2015), "Offended Feelings" (2018)