18m
Rashomon
Author:
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (5)
Reader: Hayk Petrosyan (258)
Category:
Prose (621)
Short story (657)
Japanese literature (6)
Translator:
Norayr Adalyan (4)
Age Recommendation: 16+
“Rashōmon” is a story of Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. The story recounts the encounter between a servant and an old woman in the dilapidated Rashōmon, the southern gate of the then-ruined city of Kyoto, where unclaimed corpses were sometimes dumped. The man, a lowly servant recently fired, is contemplating whether to starve to death or to become a thief to survive in the barren times.