A review by eenaah
The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

🍃“𝑨𝒉, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 – 𝒂 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒘, 𝒂 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈? 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒅, 𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒅. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒚? ”

The book contains 3 short stories:

▪️𝘐𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 : a strange murder story.

▪️𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 : about death dates of his family members.

▪️𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯: musings of a suicidal man.

Ngl all 3 of them are extremely disturbing and strange. 

“𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆.”

 “𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏,’ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅, ‘𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒊è𝒄𝒍𝒆.”