Soseki natsume kokoro / Soseki Natsume ; translated by Edwin McClellan ; Introduction by J. Keith Vincent.

By:

Natsume, Soseki [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Tokyo ; North Clarendon : Tuttle Publishing, 2025.Edition: First tuttle editionDescription: 238 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9784805319796

Other title:

Soseki natsume kokoro : a classic novel of Japan

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DDC classification:

895.6342

Summary: ""Natsume Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature." -Haruki Murakami A chance encounter irrevocably links a university student to an older man he simply calls Sensei ("Teacher"). Intrigued by Sensei's aloofness, the student visits him with increasing frequency, and Sensei and his beautiful wife eventually open their home and lives to him. The student graduates and is called home to care for his dying father, but Sensei draws him back with a letter revealing a secret that has shadowed him since youth. Written in 1914, toward the end of Soseki's career, Kokoro provides a timeless psychological analysis of man's alienation from society. It is recognized as one of his most important works and a milestone in the emergence of the psychological novel in Japan. Its universal themes of friendship, betrayal and the struggle for meaning in a rapidly changing world continue to resonate today"--

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ayesha Abed Library	Ayesha Abed Library	895.6342 NAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		3010045755

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First tuttle edition, 1969.

""Natsume Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature." -Haruki Murakami A chance encounter irrevocably links a university student to an older man he simply calls Sensei ("Teacher"). Intrigued by Sensei's aloofness, the student visits him with increasing frequency, and Sensei and his beautiful wife eventually open their home and lives to him. The student graduates and is called home to care for his dying father, but Sensei draws him back with a letter revealing a secret that has shadowed him since youth. Written in 1914, toward the end of Soseki's career, Kokoro provides a timeless psychological analysis of man's alienation from society. It is recognized as one of his most important works and a milestone in the emergence of the psychological novel in Japan. Its universal themes of friendship, betrayal and the struggle for meaning in a rapidly changing world continue to resonate today"--

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