Akutagawa Ryūnosuke: Life and Major Works
- Life
- 1892–1927
- Born in
- Tokyo
- Literary schools
- New Thought School
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia
Biography
Born in Tokyo in 1892; his given name was likewise Ryūnosuke. While studying English literature at Tokyo Imperial University, he co-founded the third and fourth incarnations of the magazine "Shinshichō" with fellow students, and made his debut when the short story "The Nose" was highly praised by Natsume Sōseki. Drawing on classical sources such as the Konjaku Monogatarishū and the Uji Shūi Monogatari, he published one sharply observed story after another — "Rashomon," "Yam Gruel," "In a Grove" — that laid bare human egoism, and won acclaim as a leading figure of the New Technicalist school of the Taishō era. In his later years he suffered from failing health and a "vague uneasiness," and in 1927 he took his own life with an overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 35. After his death, the Akutagawa Ryūnosuke Prize (the Akutagawa Prize) was established in his name as a gateway award for new writers, and it remains to this day the central literary prize in Japan.
Works in the app
- Tanizaki jun'ichirō shi
- Kachikachiyama
- Akutagawa Ryūnosuke kashū
- Rashōmon November 1915
- The Nose February 1916
- Yam Gruel September 1916
- The Handkerchief October 1916
- Tabako to akuma November 1916
- Un January 1917
- Chūtō April 1917
- Rashōmon no ato ni May 1917
- Aruhi no ōishi kuranosuke September 1917
- Katakoi October 1917
- Gesaku zanmai November 1917
- Akuma 1918
- Eiyū no utsuwa January 1918
- Hell Screen May 1918
- The Spider's Thread July 1918
- Hōkyōnin no shi September 1918
- Kareno shō October 1918
- Inu to fue January 1919
- Ano koro no jibun no koto January 1919
- Mandarins May 1919
- The Ball January 1920
- Majutsu January 1920
- Aki April 1920
- Toshishun July 1920
- Nankin no kirisuto July 1920
- Aidokusho no inshō August 1920
- Shūzanzu January 1921
- The God Agni January 1921
- Myōna hanashi January 1921
- Shanhai yūki March 1921
- In a Grove January 1922
- Kamigami no bishō January 1922
- The Handcar March 1922
- Sennin March 1922
- Rokunomiya no himegimi August 1922
- Ogin September 1922
- Shuju no kotoba January 1923
- Sarukani kassen March 1923
- Hina March 1923
- Shiro August 1923
- Taishō jūninen kugatsu tsuitachi no daishin ni saishite September 1923
- Ababababa December 1923
- Hitokure no tsuchi January 1924
- Aru ren'ai shōsetsu April 1924
- Momotarō July 1924
- Piano May 1925
- Tenkibo October 1926
- Aru shakaishugisha December 1926
- Haguruma 1927
- Genkaku sanbō January 1927
- Kappa March 1927
- Asakusa kōen March 1927
- Shinkirō March 1927
- Bungeiteki na amarini bungeiteki na April 1927
- Aru kyūyu e okuru shuki July 1927
- Isho July 1927
- Saihō no hito August 1927
- Jippon no hari September 1927
- Anchū mondō September 1927
- A Fool's Life October 1927