Author Description

In A Grove Is An Early Modernist Short Story Consisting Of Seven Varying Accounts Of The Murder Of A Samurai, Kanazawa No Takehiro, Whose Corpse Has Been Found In A Bamboo Forest Near Kyoto. Each Section Simultaneously Clarifies And Obfuscates What The Reader Knows About The Murder, Eventually Creating A Complex And Contradictory Vision Of Events That Brings Into Question Humanity's Ability Or Willingness To Perceive And Transmit Objective Truth. It Is The Basis For Kurosawa's Rashoumon.