Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove fuses the "call of the Wild" and the "call of the West" to deconstruct the singularity of truth through seven contradictory testimonies.Departing from the life-or-death dilemma in Rashōmon, this work exposes how shame and despair distort humanity.While Akira Kurosawa's film implants a "quasi-truth" to bridge narrative gaps through humanistic hope, Akutagawa's skepticism reveals language's opacity and truth's relativity-an enduring modern predicament.
Source: OALib
Author: Qihan Chen
Institution: Zhejiang Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412549647