Natsume Soseki

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.

Sanshiro

The great Japanese author’s most famous novel, in its first new English translation in half a century No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro—meaning "heart"—is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls "Sensei." Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student's struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century.

Kokoro

Sōseki Natsume

"Edward Fowler contributed to the editing of this translation."

The Gate

Fernando Cordobes

Yoko Ogihara

«Soy un gato, aunque todavía no tengo nombre.» Así comienza la primera y más hilarante novela de Natsume S&ōseki, una auténtica obra maestra de la literatura japonesa, que narra las aventuras de un desdeñoso felino que cohabita, de modo accidental, con un grupo de grotescos personajes, miembros todos ellos de la bienpensante clase media tokiota: el dispéptico profesor Kushami y su familia, teóricos dueños de la casa donde vive el gato; el mejor amigo del profesor, el charlatán e irritante Meitei; o el joven estudioso Kangetsu, que día sí, día no, intenta arreglárselas para conquistar a la hija de los vecinos. Escrita justo antes de su aclamada novela Botchan, Soy un gato es una sátira descarnada de la burguesía Meiji. Dotada de un ingenio a prueba de bombas y de un humor sardónico, recorre las peripecias de un voluble filósofo gatuno que no se cansa de hacer los comentarios más incisivos sobre la disparatada tropa de seres humanos con la que le ha tocado convivir.

Soy un gato

A murderer discovers his true nature, a samurai attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories by a noted Japanese author.

And The Cat's Grave

Ten Nights Dreaming

"It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be deeply affected by it. It cannot and should not be overlooked. It is one of my favorites."--Haruki Murakami The Mineris the most daringly experimental and least well-known novel of Japanese writer Natsume Soseki. An absurdist tale written in 1908, it was in many ways a precursor to the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Translated by Jay Rubin, and with an introduction from Haruki Murakami, this is bound to appeal to fans of Japanese literature.

The Miner

Ardindan

Soseki Museum in London

"Ten Nights' Dreams is a collection of ten short stories or dreams. Among the ten nights, the first, second, third, and fifth nights start with the same sentence, "This is the dream I dreamed." Each dream has a surrealistic atmosphere. Some are funny, and others are grotesquely weird. Did Soseki try to express what he actually dreamed? Or was his subconscious emerging spontaneously in the form of narrative dream?"--P. [4] of cover.

Ten Nights' Dreams

Madenci

Ben Bir Kediyim

Jose Pazo Espinosa

Andres Ibanez

An undisputed modern Japanese classic, this novel narrates the adventures of Botchan, who is sent as a teacher to a rural school located in the remote island of Shikoku. In his new post he will encounter a series of unusual characters, but above all he will be forced to face a horde of feral children who are devoted to making his life miserable. Un clásico moderno japonés, esta novela narra las aventuras de Botchan, quien es asignado como maestro a una escuela rural en la isla remota de Shikoku. En esta nueva posición, se enfrentará a toda una serie de personajes peculiares, pero, más que nada, tendrá que lidiar con una muchedumbre de niños salvajes dedicados a hacerle la vida imposible.

Botchan

Aiko Ito

"A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action…" —The New Yorker Written over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

I Am A Cat

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Il signorino

Graeme Wilson

Indulge yourself in the final volume chronicling the adventures of Soseki's anonymous cat as he, with acerbic wit and sardonic eye, observes the humans around him. See how its master deals with local schoolboys who keep hitting their baseball into his yard, how he can't get up in the morning, how the three children of the house really conduct themselves at breakfast, and perhaps most intriguingly, how witless Zen can occasionally appear.

I Am a Cat

Guanciale d'erba

Ao aparecer num terreno baldio, "sombrio, úmido e pegajoso", o gato, narrador deste romance, depois de passar por algumas poucas adversidades, acaba parando numa casa onde é acolhido por Chinno Kushami, o professor mal-humorado e estagnado em sua completa falta de perspectiva. Ridiculariza de maneira demolidora a vida da intelectualidade do Japão da Era Meiji, mostrando a fragilidade do professor e daqueles que o cercam. Sugerindo-se sempre como um ser de raça superior, o gato, com sua pesada munição e ares de dândi, não poupa nada nem ninguém. Sua linguagem é carregada de sarcasmo quando o assunto é o ser humano. Mesmo quando há uma ternura esta é impregnada de deboche. Soseki investe, por meio do olhar de fora, recurso que usa habilmente, em profundas análises psicológicas do ser humano – influenciado por William James (1842-1910) e suas pesquisas sobre o subconsciente. Todos os personagens passam pelo crivo do felino que leva o leitor a uma jocosa aventura, chamando-o para ser seu cúmplice na tarefa de desvendar o trágico cinismo interior de cada personagem e seu mundo repleto de mesquinhez, mentiras, vaidades e desolação. Muitas vezes trazendo para o texto idéias de escritores e filósofos do passado ou contemporâneos, Soseki propõe uma reformulação do modo japonês de escrever e pensar, a partir do contato com o pensamento e os costumes do Ocidente. Essa reformulação vem ao encontro das mudanças efetuadas na Era Meiji (1868-1912), quando o Japão passou por reestruturações políticas, econômicas e sociais, tornando-se potência mundial. Publicado inicialmente em forma de capítulos no Hototogisu, importante jornal literário da época, e lançado em 1905, Eu sou um gato é a estréia literária de Natsume Soseki e uma das primeiras faturas da renovação modernista da literatura japonesa. Com este livro, o autor atingiu imenso sucesso de público e crítica. Além de nos levar a reflexões sobre a condição contraditória e quebradiça do ser humano diante dos eventos diários, esta é uma obra que nos proporciona ótimos momentos de diversão, características que mantêm o poder de atração desse importante livro para sucessivas gerações de leitores no Japão e no exterior.

Eu sou um gato

Il diario della bicicletta e altri racconti

Dieci notti di sogni

In ten terrifying, intriguing and thrilling dreams, Natsume Soseki (1867 - 1916) treats leitmotifs and antipodes such as: loyalty and treatise, love and death, fame and immortality, social outsiders, honor and loss of face, desperation and hope. Natsume Soseki carries us off into his dreams and the old Japan comes to life once again. The Japanese original text "Yume yuja" was completely set up with furigana in this two-language edition, so that every student of the Japanese language can read Natsume Soseki's Ten nights of dreams fluently. The dreams are commented to provide background information to the reader.

Natsume Soseki

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