Vol. 3June 2026
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羅生門

芥川竜之介 · Japanese

Beneath a crumbling Kyoto gate, a dismissed servant sheltering from rain meets an old woman pulling hair from a corpse, and the line between survival and theft dissolves.

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Beneath a crumbling Kyoto gate, a dismissed servant sheltering from rain meets an old woman pulling hair from a corpse, and the line between survival and theft dissolves. Akutagawa Ryunosuke's study of moral collapse.

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芥川竜之介

아쿠타가와 류노스케(芥川 竜之介, 1892-1927)는 일본의 소설가입니다. 그는 짧고 강렬한 단편 소설들을 통해 인간 심리의 어두운 면과 사회 비판을 날카롭게 그려냈습니다. 대표작으로는 "귤(蜜柑)", "덤불 속(藪の中)", "라쇼몽(羅生門)" 등이 있으며, 그의 문학적 업적을 기려 일본의 권위 있는 문학상인 아쿠타가와 상이 제정되었습니다.

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