Japanese writer (1892–1927)
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He wrote short stories so precise they reset the form in Japan — then swallowed barbital at thirty-five. The country's top literary prize still carries his name.
Born 1 March 1892, Akutagawa wrote through the Taishō period with a compression that earned him the title "father of the Japanese short story." He used the art name Chōkōdō Shujin. His work cut so deep into the culture that Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, was named in his honor. On 24 July 1927, he took his own life through an overdose of barbital. He was thirty-five.
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Question: How about friends—how many do you have? Answer: Oh, my friendships reach over all boundaries of time and space—they are ancient, modern, from the east and from the west.
Once he had finished writing “The Life of a Stupid Man,” he happened to see a stuffed swan in a secondhand shop.
We are human animals and thus fear death as animals do. The so-called “will to live” is nothing more than a different name for animal instinct.
Truly, human life is as ephemeral as dew and as brief as lightning.
When I kill a man, I do it with my sword, but people like you don't use swords.
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