"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that b...
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"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth. It is the basis for Kurosawa's "Rashoumon."
『藪の中』(やぶのなか)は、芥川龍之介の短編小説。1922年(大正11年)、月刊雑誌「新潮」1月号に発表された。
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on Sep 28, 2009 at 14:49
If you need to download a version of this book with an embedded Japanese font, I've created and posted one on mobileread.com here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57751