The Life of a Stupid Man: Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Penguin Little Black Classics)

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Why did this one have to be born - to come into the worls like all the others, this world so full of suffering?" This short story is an autobiography of Akutagawa's past. Most of it was reflection on his mother who was insane, his elder sister who had died young, the death of his mother, his relationship with his father, and the death of his father. These are the events we focus on and we see through very little just how much Akutagawa looked down upon himself. He continuously felt inadequate and estranged from his family. It's a sad story and not one you can really give a rating to, but his execution was stupendous especially since he abhorred the idea of writing an autobiography of himself. Super interesting premise! I liked that each Akutagawa's stories, we are left to ponder upon ourselves what had happened which makes it an interesting read!

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In the third part, which has 51 stories, there seem to be the genuine thoughts of the author about relationships, life, death, and capitalism. Needless to mention that some stories were hard for me to draw any conclusion from them. Nothing to interpret. No logical conclusion to derive. Some of them even seemed ordinary to the extent where writing them seems unexplained.Akutagawa was born in the Kyōbashi district Tokyo as the eldest son of a dairy operator named Shinbara Toshizō and his wife Fuku. He was named "Ryūnosuke" ("Dragon Offshoot") because he was born in the Year of the Dragon, in the Month of the Dragon, on the Day of the Dragon, and at the Hour of the Dragon (8 a.m.). Seven months after Akutagawa's birth, his mother went insane and he was adopted by her older brother, taking the Akutagawa family name. Despite the shadow this experience cast over Akutagawa's life, he benefited from the traditional literary atmosphere of his uncle's home, located in what had been the "downtown" section of Edo. Interestingly enough, he wrote these using third point of view as if it was another person but it was actually him. Maybe he tries to separate the creation he wrote about from his life but he knows so well it is him and will always be him.

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PDF / EPUB File Name: The_life_of_a_stupid_man_-_Ryunosuke_Akutagawa.pdf, The_life_of_a_stupid_man_-_Ryunosuke_Akutagawa.epub It is difficult to say that such book is understandable or not, factual or fictional. Either way it is reasonable to believe that this kind of writing was written and published by a desperate man who suffered enough in his life and had depressing thoughts about life in general. The first story is a little bit disturbing. It describes an incident of a man who was murdered and tortured before his wife which acted in a strange way. The other two stories were autobiographical and very fragmentary. Those I liked less but it feel wrong to really rate it, it being An anthology of three short stories, which two stories mainly revolves on the author himself, making it an autobiography leading to his death. Akutagawa's writing has always had a flair that is quite hard to pinpoint, but its one that I really liked.but he knew that not everyone is moved by literature. His own works were unlikely to appeal to people who were not like him, and had not lived a life like his - this was another feeling that was worked upon him." Two Books collecting stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa: "Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories" and "Mandarins: Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa", plus one separate short story titled "The Christ of Nanking" - Files in EPUB and MOBI formats. The life of a stupid man is an autobiography that leads to the death of Akutagawa, told in 51 short verses. His writing is one that I loved. It is daunting, sorrowful and mostly, it shows the thoughts of a man that feels empty inside. Stories like this, when a person whom has not experienced this feeling once in their life, would not be able to relate to the story. It was depressing and dark, but for me, it gave me a sense of comfort in his writing. In “Life of a Stupid Man,” Akutagawa’s ego — the city-dwelling phantom that gathers his stupidities — is a literary construction submerged in fin de siècle ennui and despair. The melancholy Baudelaire and ironic Voltaire are its heroes.