{"id":562,"date":"2007-06-23T02:40:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T00:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=562"},"modified":"2007-06-23T02:40:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T00:40:32","slug":"akutagawa-ryunosuke-rashomon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Akutagawa Ryunosuke &#8211; Rashomon (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/wp-content\/rashomon.jpg\" alt=\"rashomon.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/> This collection of short pieces did not leave me quite as astounded and fascinated as did his longer story <a href=https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=123>Kappa<\/a>, but there still is an undertone of oddness created by the things, notions and emotions that come natural to Ryunosuke&#8217;s characters, yet seem strange and strangely upsetting to me. But the general theme that ties together this book, the isolation of the individual and the fragility and subjectivity of social relations and even accounts of reality, both of which at the same time are essential to life and happyness, is much closer to being universal as, I suspect, his criticism of a specifically Japanese society was in &#8220;Kappa&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of short pieces did not leave me quite as astounded and fascinated as did his longer story Kappa, but there still is an undertone of oddness created by the things, notions and emotions that come natural to Ryunosuke&#8217;s characters, yet seem strange and strangely upsetting to me. But the general theme that ties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,22,36,8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-englisch","category-good","category-japan","category-movie","category-westerns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}