Ворота Расёмон - Rasomon Kapıları

V etot sbornik voshli kak prinesshiye Akutagave mirovuyu slavu i avtomaticheski assotsiiruyushchiyesya s yego imenem istoricheskiye rasskazy i novelly (vklyuchaya legendarnuyu "V chashche", posluzhivshuyu osnovoy dlya stsenariya bessmertnogo fil'ma "Rasomon" Kurosavy), tak i meneye izvestnyye zapadnomu chitatelyu, no pochitayushchiyesya na rodine avtora yeshche vyshe rasskazy, deystviye kotorykh proiskhodit na fone sovremennoy avtoru real'nosti Yaponii nachala XX veka, yeshche sokhranyayushchey nemalo chert natsional'nogo svoyeobraziya, no zhadno i stremitel'no "yevropeiziruyushcheysya". Otdel'nogo upominaniya zasluzhivayut postoyanno voznikayushchiye v tvorchestve Akutagavy reministsentsii s klassicheskoy russkoy literaturoy, kotoroy on bespredel'no voskhishchalsya i v kotoroy naryadu s rodnoy istoriyey nashel neischerpayemyy istochnik vdokhnoveniya.