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Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The Life of a Stupid Man

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'What is the life of a human being — a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'

Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927). Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories is also available in Penguin Classics.
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    • The Evil Rebelhas quoted9 days ago
      Why do you attack the present social system?

      Because I see the evils that capitalism has engendered.

      Evils? I thought you recognized no difference between good and evil. How do you make a living, then
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      • The Evil Rebelhas quoted9 days ago
        Why did this one have to be born – to come into the world like all the others, this world so full of suffering? Why did this one have to bear the destiny of having a father like me
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        • Bitaniya mallhas quoted24 days ago
          Ah, what is the life of a human being – a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad. What can I say?
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