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Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is a retelling of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done ...
The spider drops him a thread to climb up into heaven. His elation is short-lived, however, as he realizes that others have started climbing the thread behind him. Hell Screen , by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (episode 12): Yoshihide, the greatest painter in the country, is commissioned to draw his greatest work, an image of the king's country inside ...
A spider wants to lure a beetle-girl into her net by singing, but she recognizes the danger and flees. She saves herself in a tulip, in which she is then wrapped by the spider's thread. Shortly after, a storm rises, which the beetle-woman (protected by the flower) survives, but the spider gets thrown through the air until it finally lands in a ...
Dreamcatcher — Native American cultural object, styled after a spider's web; Las Hilanderas (Velázquez) — Baroque painting, c. 1657; (a.k.a. The Fable of Arachne) "The Spider's Thread" — 1918 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa "Legend of the Christmas Spider" — Eastern European folk tale
A narrative thread, or plot thread (or, more ambiguously, a storyline), refers to particular elements and techniques of writing to center the story in the action or experience of characters rather than to relate a matter in a dry "all-knowing" sort of narration.
Spider is a novel by the British novelist Patrick McGrath, originally published in the United States in 1990. In the novel, a psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator , the protagonist wrestles with mental illness and trauma from his past.
Ovur is a priest of the spider goddess who has come to a different understanding of truth than Basrahip. Marcus Wester goes with Clara Kalliam to help the Antean army return to Camnipol. Upon return to the city, Wester plots an end to the priesthood of the spider goddess. Cithrin bel Sarcour continues her work for the Medean Bank.
Ewers's first novel, Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), was published in 1910, with an English translation published in America in 1927.It introduces the character of Frank Braun, who, like Ewers, is a writer, historian, philosopher, and world traveler with a decidedly Nietzschean morality.