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Esli estʹ zhelanie poni͡atʹ i͡aponskui͡u dushu i mentalʹnostʹ - nado chitatʹ malui͡u prozu Akutagavy Ri͡unoskė. Chitatʹ netoroplivo i vdumchivo i perechityvatʹ snova i snova, ulavlivai͡a nameki i podteksty i obnaruzhivai͡a pod chistoĭ poverkhnostʹi͡u potaennye glubiny smyslov.V ėtot sbornik vkli͡ucheny proizvedenii͡a raznykh let - novelly i sovsem korotkie, po-i͡aponski lakonichnye rasskazy i miniati͡ury, v kotorykh podrazumevaetsi͡a (i, sootvetstvenno, prochityvaetsi͡a) gorazdo bolʹshe, chem napisano. Serʹeznye i ironichnye, odnako neizmenno izi͡ashchnye stilizat͡sii pod srednevekovui͡u prozu, v kotorykh Akutagava do sikh por ne imeet sebe ravnykh sredi i͡aponskikh pisateleĭ, grustnye i ironichnye skazki i pritchi i teksty v bolee evropeizirovannom zhanre psikhologicheskogo realizma, neizmenno prelomli͡avshemsi͡a tem ne menee avtorom pod sovershenno nat͡sionalʹnym uglom...

If you want to understand the Japanese soul and mentality, you need to read Akutagawa Ryunoske's short prose. Read slowly and thoughtfully and reread over and over again, catching hints and subtexts and discovering hidden depths of meanings under the clean surface.This collection includes works from different years — short stories and very short, concise stories and miniatures in Japanese, in which much more is implied (and, accordingly, read) than is written. Serious and ironic, but invariably elegant stylizations of medieval prose, in which Akutagawa still has no equal among Japanese writers, sad and ironic fairy tales and parables and texts in a more Europeanized genre of psychological realism, invariably refracted nevertheless by the author from a completely national angle...