Lippit, editor, The Essential Akutagawa (1999)

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
The Essential Akutagawa: Rashomon, Hell Screen, Cogwheel, A Fool's Life and Other Short Fiction.
Edited by Seiji M. Lippit.
New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1999.

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892 – 1927).
• Japanese literature: Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa-period literature (1868–1945).
• Akutagawa Prize.
• Seiji M. Lippit, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles.
• Contents of The Essential Akutagawa :
  1. Rashōmon (short story), 1915.
  2. The Nose (Akutagawa short story), 1916.
  3. Kesa and Morito, 1918.
  4. The Spider's Thread, 1918.
  5. Hell Screen, 1918.
  6. The Ball, 1920.
     The Ball refers to the novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti (1850–1923) first published in 1887 [Amazon.com].
  7. Tu Tze-chun, 1920.
  8. Autumn Mountain, 1921.
  9. In a Grove, 1922.
  10. The Faint Smiles of the Gods, 1922.
  11. San Sebastian, 1927.
  12. Cogwheels, 1927.
  13. A Fool's Life, 1927.
  14. A Note to a Certain Old Friend, 1927 (Akutagawa's suicide note).

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Note:

A reviewer on Amazon points out that this 1999 Marsilio Publications edition of Akutagawa stories (Lippit, ed., The Essential Akutagawa) consists of translations that are old, poorly done in some cases, and need to be replaced by newer, more competent translations. Since then, in 2006, Penguin published a new collection of translations by Jay Rubin:

• Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. Translated by Jay Rubin. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]

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