Kappa
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Located in: North Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 9780811232166
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811232166
ISBN-13
9780811232166
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6058380853
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kappa
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-001737
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Enchanting and sometimes terrifying--a certain restrained sorrow, a certain preference for the visual, a certain lightness of touch, seem to me essentially Japanese. Extravagance and horror are in his work, but never in his style, which is always crystal clear. Perhaps he was inspired by Swift's Yahoos [but] halfway through the story, Akutagawa forgets the satiric conventions: it hardly matters to him that the Kappa, who are water imps, turn into humans who talk about Marx, Darwin, or Nietzsche., Powell and Hofmann-Kuroda offer a crisp translation of this strange, densely literary 1927 fantasy novella from Akutagawa (1892-1927)...this is a thought-provoking way to spend an afternoon., One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works... The flow of his language is the best feature of Akutagawa's style. Never stagnant, it moves along like a living thing., Kappa is a scathing satire of contemporary Japan...a welcome reintroduction to an important and often-overlooked classic by one of Japan's most important modern writers as it approaches the 100th anniversary of its publication.
Dewey Decimal
895.635
Synopsis
Akutagawa's magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own--poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and witty, The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age. Akutagawa's Kappa is narrated by Patient No. 23, a madman in a lunatic asylum: he recounts how, while out hiking in Kamikochi, he spots a Kappa. He decides to chase it and, like Alice pursuing the White Rabbit, he tumbles down a hole, out of the human world and into the realm of the Kappas. There he is well looked after, in fact almost made a pet of: as a human, he is a novelty. He makes friends and spends his time learning about their world, exploring the seemingly ridiculous ways of the Kappa, but noting many--not always flattering--parallels to Japanese mores regarding morality, legal justice, economics, and sex. Alas, when the patient eventually returns to the human world, he becomes disgusted by humanity and, like Gulliver missing the Houyhnhnms, he begins to pine for his old friends the Kappas, rather as if he has been forced to take leave of Toad of Toad Hall...
LC Classification Number
PL801.K8K313 2023
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