Ворота Расёмон

This collection included as Akutagawa world fame and historical stories and novels automatically associated with his name (including the legendary “in the most common”, which served as the basis for the script of the immortal film “Rasomon” Kurosava), and less well -known to the Western reader, but revered at home The author is even higher than the stories, the action of which takes place against the background of the modern author of Japan of the beginning of the twentieth century, still retaining many features of national originality, but eagerly and rapidly “Europeanizing”. Special references deserve a reminiscence constantly arising in the works of Akutagava with classical Russian literature, which he infinitely admired and in which, along with his native history, he found an inexhaustible source of inspiration