芥川龙之介 / Ryunosuke Akutagawa

芥川龙之介 / Ryunosuke Akutagawa appears in 76.玄怪录：晚唐党争？没耽误宰相写大马猴的故事 through his adaptation of [[DuZiChun|《杜子春》]]. The episode uses him as a comparison point rather than a full author study.

The source says Akutagawa changes the ending so the test turns on seeing suffering parents rather than seeing one’s child killed. In the episode’s reading, the altered ending makes Transcendence Against Human Feeling more explicit: if becoming immortal means accepting the destruction of basic human bonds, then failing the test can be ethically preferable.

Connections

• [[DuZiChun|《杜子春》]] - story he rewrites in the source comparison.
• Transcendence Against Human Feeling - concept clarified through the adaptation.
• 唐传奇 / Tang Chuanqi - Chinese source-story field that reaches a later Japanese literary afterlife.
• Classic Reading Complexity - broader frame for comparing old stories with later adaptations without flattening either version.