He defended his use of the watakushi-shosetsu form in his non-fiction, and his stories include one about a painter who sees his daughter burnt in a carriage and a criminal who attempts to escape from the underworld on a spider's thread.
He wrote about a girl on a train who throws some of the title fruit to three boys in his story "Tangerines," while he wrote about two battleships being repaired in "Three Windows." One of his works opens on the second floor of a bookstore, where the protagonist observes that "Life cannot compare to a single line of Baudelaire." That work, which consists of fifty-one brief aphoristic discussions of episodes in the author's life, is called A Fool's Life, while his other late works include the film script Temptation and the critical Literary, All Too Literary. He defended his use of the watakushi-shosetsu form in his non-fiction, and his stories include one about a painter who sees his daughter burnt in a carriage and a criminal who attempts to escape from the underworld on a spider's thread. For 10 points, name this author of "Hell Screen" and "The Nose," who described a woman stealing hair from corpses and a rape and murder that change depending on point of view in his "In a Grove" and "Rashomon."
He wrote about a girl on a train who throws some of the title fruit to three boys in his story "Tangerines," while he wrote about two battleships being repaired in "Three Windows.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke