Rip It Up
$43.05
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2025
Summary
The Akutagawa prize-winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan’s most outlandish and inventive author.
Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida’s award-winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making.
Set in a kaleidoscopic hyperreal Japan circa Y2K, Rip It Up catalogues the misdeeds and misgivings of a down-and-out wannabe debonair who ekes out a meager living at the fringes of the art world, wracked by jealousy at his friend’s suc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781965874141 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1965874142 |
| Author: | Kou Machida, Daniel Joseph |
| Publisher: | Inpatient Press |
| Imprint: | Inpatient Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 102mm x 146mm |
| Series: | Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions |
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Critics Review
“Rip It Up is an artistic achievement, both as a novel and as a work of translation.”
—Asian Review of Books
“Rip It Up opens the door to a more avant-garde, experimental kind of literature that is an important part of the literary landscape.”
—Japan Times
Kou Machida
Kou Machida is a punk singer, actor, and author. After releasing one of the seminal Japanese punk albums with his band INU, 1981’s Meshi kuuna! (Fuck Eating!), he turned to poetry and fiction. He has won the Akutagawa and Tanizaki prizes among many others. His 2005 novel Kokuhaku (Confession) was named one of the three best books of the last thirty years by the Asahi Newspaper.
Daniel Joseph is a translator, editor, and musician. He spent his salad days shouting in dank basements before getting a master’s degree in medieval Japanese literature. Recent translation projects include contributions to Terminal Boredom (2021), a collection of stories by science fiction pioneer Izumi Suzuki; and the memoir Try Saying You’re Alive! (Blank Forms, 2021) by outsider folk maniac Kazuki Tomokawa.
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