- Akutagawa Prize 2000 (first half) · Winner
Rip It Up
きれぎれ · Kiregire
Kou Machida (町田康, born 1962)
Translated by Daniel Joseph
English editions
In EnglishRip It Up
Inpatient Press · United States · 2025 · Paperback · 152 pages
Rip It Up
Inpatient Press · United States · January 2022
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The narrator, a painter who quit high school, spends what money he has in hostess bars and refuses any kind of labour. Broke, he turns for a loan to Yoshiwara, a former schoolmate whose paintings he rates below his own but who has found recognition, and who has married the woman the narrator was once introduced to for an arranged match. Still in love with her, he plots, and his daydreams and his life merge.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 188 pages in the original
- First published
- 2000 by Bungeishunju
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
9784163193304 (original)
9781965874141 (Inpatient Press, United States)