Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is a Japanese writer. His prose is intellectual and exotic: “Human life is a greater hell than hell itself.”
“The Words of a Pygmy” is a collection of essays and short stories. With the careful attention of a psychologist-author, the writer studies the movements of a person’s soul, passing through pain that even the mask of humor cannot hide: “I have no conscience. I have only nerves…”