The narrator of a story by this author panics after waking up and finding one of his slippers missing; earlier; that character sees a raincoat on a sofa shortly before receiving a call telling him that his brother-in-law has been hit by a train. A character created by this man is criticized for his vanity so much that he is relieved to awaken one morning and find that his nose hangs five inches beyond his chin. A hallucination-plagued man narrates this author's story (*) "Cogwheels." This non-Gogol author of "The Nose" wrote a story in which the body of a woman who sold snake meat as fish has its hair stolen by an old woman, who in turn is robbed by a servant. The setting of that story, a gate, was combined with the plot of a story by this man presenting four different viewpoints of a murder to create a Kurosawa film. For 10 points, name this Japanese short story master who wrote "Rashom
The narrator of a story by this author panics after waking up and finding one of his slippers missing; earlier; that character sees a raincoat on a sofa shortly before receiving a call telling him that his brother-in-law has been hit by a train. A character created by this man is criticized for his vanity so much that he is relieved to awaken one morning and find that his nose hangs five inches beyond his chin. A hallucination-plagued man narrates this author's story (*) "Cogwheels." This non-Gogol author of "The Nose" wrote a story in which the body of a woman who sold snake meat as fish has its hair stolen by an old woman, who in turn is robbed by a servant. The setting of that story, a gate, was combined with the plot of a story by this man presenting four different viewpoints of a murder to create a Kurosawa film. For 10 points, name this Japanese short story master who wrote "Rashomon" and "In a Grove."
The narrator of a story by this author panics after waking up and finding one of his slippers missing; earlier; that character sees a raincoat on a sofa shortly before receiving a call telling him that his brother-in-law has been hit by a train.