Interrupted Truth: From the Narrative Distortion of in a Grove

Rynosuke 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 Rashmon, 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.

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OALib
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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1113829
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American and British Literature Analysis
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Interrupted Truth: From the Narrative Distortion of in a Grove

Qianpeng Chen
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American and British Literature Analysis
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Interrupted Truth: From the Narrative Distortion of in a Grove

Qianpeng Chen
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Rynosuke 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 Rashmon, 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.

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Zhejiang Normal University (CN)
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