Reading Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories | Alexandria
Read Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Exposing truth's slippery nature, these haunting tales shatter our faith in objective reality. Through multiple conflicting accounts of the same events, Akutagawa reveals how self-interest and ego corrupt every human narrative - a warning more relevant in our "post-truth" era than ever before.