A Fool's Words: Thirteen Stories and Essays by Japan's Master Storyteller

"Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." --The Guardian

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), "the Father of the Japanese short story," wrote 150 stories during his brief career and is widely acclaimed as Japan's greatest storyteller. This new anthology, published exactly a century after his death, includes fresh translations of well-known classics as well as never-before-translated works:

• A Fool's Words: Aphor...