Ryûnosoke Akutagawa is a renowned author in Japan, there 's so important that even a literary prize bearing his name: the Akutagawa Prize . The texts appear here this be his last before his suicide in 1927. + + + The back cover + + +
A man takes the train to Tokyo. A passenger told her about a ghost in a raincoat. Moments later, he meets someone in a raincoat, too light for the season. In his hotel room, a third coat is placed on the back of his chair ... All indications of the gear that drives the narrator into madness. Two new posthumous author of this great Japanese literature, terrible pages that prepare the staging of its Suicide ...
+ + + + + + My opinion
At the end of his life Ryunosuke Akutagawa undergoing any hallucinations, and possibly sinking slowly into madness like her mother. This is evident in both texts here, as in the first called "Gears" in the second named "The life of an idiot" two texts published posthumously, two texts on madness.
It starts playing with "Gears" a text destabilizing. In fact I must not be easy with the madness, because the texts that I read in connection with this subject leaves me a funny feeling. And I think it basically comes from that, because the style is beautiful, Akutagawa writes well! The tone is given, the pace is just fine and phrases, but the fact I have not specifically hooked. Maybe because I was expecting something more coherent ... but madness is not consistent. So much for me.
The second text, "The life of an idiot" has more taste of autobiography, more than the first. Besides these two texts have in common, first topic of madness and then some things happening there, as an effect mirror. As if one was a distorted reality, and the other a more distorted image of reality. Cons by the text is brief, concise, see too I think, which makes it somewhat incomprehensible substance. But having them together is a good idea I think.
Ultimately, it will not stay a memorable reading. In fact I even have trouble remembering what really happened inside. But I'll try reading "Rashomon" should perhaps please me more about the content, because closer to a Japanese legend, in form as stated above: it is very well written.
+ + + + + + But still
Challenge In The Mood For Love : 3 / 6
- The terms
- The recap '!
- Reading Avenues
Other links:
Akutagawa on Wikipedia
+ + + + + + The book
It starts playing with "Gears" a text destabilizing. In fact I must not be easy with the madness, because the texts that I read in connection with this subject leaves me a funny feeling. And I think it basically comes from that, because the style is beautiful, Akutagawa writes well! The tone is given, the pace is just fine and phrases, but the fact I have not specifically hooked. Maybe because I was expecting something more coherent ... but madness is not consistent. So much for me.
The second text, "The life of an idiot" has more taste of autobiography, more than the first. Besides these two texts have in common, first topic of madness and then some things happening there, as an effect mirror. As if one was a distorted reality, and the other a more distorted image of reality. Cons by the text is brief, concise, see too I think, which makes it somewhat incomprehensible substance. But having them together is a good idea I think.
Ultimately, it will not stay a memorable reading. In fact I even have trouble remembering what really happened inside. But I'll try reading "Rashomon" should perhaps please me more about the content, because closer to a Japanese legend, in form as stated above: it is very well written.
+ + + + + + But still
Challenge In The Mood For Love : 3 / 6
- The terms
- The recap '!
- Reading Avenues
Other links:
Akutagawa on Wikipedia
+ + + + + + The book
- Paperback: 98 pages
- Publisher: Editions Gallimard (January 5, 2011)
- Collection: Folio 2 €
- Translator: Edwin de Chavanes
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