Author: Akutagawa Ryunosuke
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Kappa
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…
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Rashomon and other stories
This collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa’s film “Rashomon”, made famous Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
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Mandarins : stories
Selections.
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Rashomon and seventeen other stories
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists, a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour.
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Japanese short stories.
Short stories.
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Kappa : a novel
In Japanese folklore the Kappa is a scaly, child-sized creature with a face like a tiger and a sharp, pointed beak. In the hands of Ryunosuke, one man’s journey to ‘Kappaland’ becomes the vehicle for a critique of Japanese life and customs in the tradition of Swift and Kafka. A perfectly formed gem from the…
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Hell screen ; Cogwheels ; A fool’s life
Selections.
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Hell screen and other stories
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Exotic Japanese stories, the beautiful and the grotesque; 16 unusual tales and unforgettable images
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A fool’s life.