Cogwheels by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “On the second floor of Maruzen I found Strindberg's Legend on a shelf and read a few pages here and there. It described experiences not much different from my own. [auto-translated]”
Words of a Pygmy by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “In his Legend, Strindberg describes an experiment to find out whether death is painful. But such an experiment cannot be done in play. [auto-translated]”