SOURCE: “Akutagawa Ryunosuke,” in Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature, Stanford University Press, 1976, pp. 111–44.
In the following essay, Ueda discusses Akutagawa's interest in literary criticism and the representation of the artist's life in his short stories.
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