SOURCE: Introduction to Tales Grotesque and Curious by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, translated by Glenn W. Shaw, The Hokuseido Press, 1930, pp. i-vii.
In the following essay, Shaw gives an account of Akutagawa's influences and development as a short story writer.
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