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Kappa
By
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Narrated by
Wallace Shawn
4.8
17 ratings



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…

©2023 Allison Markin Powell & Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (P)2024 New Directions Publishing Corp.

Release date
04-02-24
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
2 hrs and 5 mins
Publisher
New Directions
Categories
Literature & Fiction
whispersync
Absurdist
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
Genre Fiction
World Literature
Witty




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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17



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Translation © 2023 by Allison Markin Powell & Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. First published as a New Directions Paperbook Original in 2023. Manufactured in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.

The views expressed in this work are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

ISBN: 978-0-811-23217-3

New Directions Books
80 Eighth Avenue
New York 10011
www.ndbooks.com



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