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Kappa - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Kappa
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9788493829506
Publisher: Ático de los Libros
Pages no: 112
Edition language: Spanish
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4.0
This was a fascinating Japanese novella about a man who finds himself in the land of the mythical Kappa.He lives there quite peacefully with the Kappa, and begins to analyze his own society based on what he sees in the Kappaland. I found it quite fascinating, and it reminded me a bit of Gulliver's T...
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michael rated it
3.0 Kappa (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
I enjoyed Kappa, although I'm not sure that I entirely "got it". Maybe I don't know enough about Japanese society in the 1920s to recognise the social mores Akutagawa is satirising. That said, there was enough universally relevant stuff to keep me interested: swipes at capitalism and greed; artisti...
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