Great Classics
Hell Screen and Other Stories
地獄変 ほか
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke · 1915–1921 · translated by Valentin Sarić
A starving servant shelters beneath a ruined city gate and finds a woman stealing hair from the dead. A robber in Hell sees a silver thread descending from Paradise. A great painter, ordered to paint a screen of Hell, will paint only what he has seen. And in a Shanghai back street, a kidnapped girl is made to speak for a god of fire.
Hell Screen and Other Stories brings together four stories by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, first published between 1915 and 1921, in a new English translation: “Rashōmon,” “The Spider’s Thread,” “Hell Screen” and “The God Agni.”
The edition keeps each story’s section divisions, follows the early 1917 text of “Rashōmon” with its original ending, and adds concise endnotes and source information.
80pages
1915–1921first published
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