Kappa
Original title: 河童 (Japanese)
Credits: 芥川龍之介 (author)
Summary
Kappa is a 1927 novella written by the Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. The story is narrated by a psychiatric patient who claims to have travelled to the land of the kappa, a creature from Japanese folklore. Critical opinion has often been divided between those who regard it as a biting satire of Taishō Japan and those who see it as an expression of Akutagawa's private agony. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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