SOURCE: “Akutagawa Ryunosuke,” in Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era, Henry Holt and Company, 1984, pp. 556–93.
In the following essay, Keene presents an overview of Akutagawa's short stories and his place in modern fiction.
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