Rashomon and Other Stories

[alobear]

As with most books of short stories, I liked some of these and not others. I certainly didn't understand them all, and a few were pretty grim and unpleasant. But there were two in particular - Green Onions and Horse Legs - which I really enjoyed, particularly because of the meta aspects and the absurd humour of them. A lot of the writing was vividly descriptive - which made the less pleasant aspects even more horrible, but also provided a fair few beautiful pictures of landscapes or amusing portraits of specific characters. Very varied in terms of subject matter and tone, so an interesting collection in terms of how they were grouped together.