Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell

Ebook download deutsch forum Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell PDB RTF in English 9780811232166

Kappa
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell
Page: 96
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780811232166
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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Ebook download deutsch forum Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell PDB RTF in English 9780811232166

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Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and wittyThe 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…

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