Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927) is one of the most significant Japanese writers of the XXth century. Master of a literary form focusing on brevity, he has written more than one hundred stories that range in an entirely original and transverse manner in the pantheon of the literature of his country: from historic or contemporary stories to fantastic and surreal ones, from markedly autobiographic essays to fables and allegories. Akutagawa’s impact in Japanese literature is such that a literary pri...