For 10 points, name this author that wrote fifty sentences describing himself in "A Fool's Life," who also wrote "Cogwheels," "Hell Screen" and "Rashomon."
One of this author's last works was a description of his feelings after reading a biography of Empedocles, which is found in his suicide note called Memorandum to an Old Friend. This man was attacked by Masamune Hakucho for using a "white lotus" ending in such works as "St. Christopher" and "Juliano Kichisuke." In one of this author's works a former arsonist is able to ascend from the Pool of Blood past the Mountain of Needles because the Buddha passed by Hell and had compassion for him. One of this author's autobiographical works describes his reading of the Legends of August Strindberg and the suicide of his brother while in a raincoat. In that work, the words "All Right" are the only thing that comes from his pen. For 10 points, name this author that wrote fifty sentences describing himself in "A Fool's Life," who also wrote "Cogwheels," "Hell Screen" and "Rashomon."
One of this author's last works was a description of his feelings after reading a biography of Empedocles, which is found in his suicide note called Memorandum to an Old Friend.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa