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Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. This work features stories such as Rashomon, In a Bamboo Grove, The Nose, O-Gin, Loyalty, Death Register, The Life of a Stupid Man and Spinning Gears.

This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires...until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul. schovat popis

Dans Svastika, à l'image du symbole religieux, quatre personnages composent chacune des extrémités d'une croix en mouvement autour d'un axe fixe qui représente le désir. Sous la forme d'une longue confession, Sonoko, la narratrice, revient sur les péripéties d'un amour aussi destructeur que violent. Lasse d'une vie conjugale sans relief, elle s'éprend de l'émouvante beauté de la jeune Mitsuko et en tombe bientôt éperdument amoureuse.