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Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Ryu ฬ„nosuke Akutagawa (1892โ€“1927), the โ€œfather of the Japanese short story,โ€ produced hundreds of stories over the course of his brief and tortured writing career. Akutagawaโ€™s work is marked by his profound knowledge of classical and contemporary literature from Japan, China, and the West. A strong autobiographical element also runs through much of his fiction. At the age of 35, Akutagawa died from an overdose of barbiturates, leaving behind a groundbreaking corpus of fiction.
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