Othy’s Reviews > Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories > Status Update

These are wonderful stories that avoid two problems I find in most short stories: (being about one, ah-ha moment or being too close-ended). They are expensive and interesting. Beyond their qualities as stories (which is most of what matters), they are also interesting a documents of a time when Japanese authors were playing with modernism but not going head first into it. Western modes are just one too he uses.