In English
Akutagawa 2000 (first half) · Winner
Rip It Up
きれぎれ · Kiregire
Kou Machida · 38 when first published
Novella · 188 pages
AI-generated summary:A spendthrift painter who drinks hard and shuns all work becomes infatuated with the wife of a more successful schoolmate, a woman once proposed to him as a bride, and begins plotting as fantasy and reality blur.