Jay Rubin

Sōseki Natsume

This book, My Life: Living, Loving, and Fighting, is an interview with Sumii Sue conducted by her daughter, Masuda Reiko, a reporter and editorialist for the Mainichi Shimbun and a well-known writer. Masuda succeeds in eliciting details of daily life and personal relationships that give us a wonderful picture of this courageous woman and her fighting temperament, her pride in her achievements, and her self-effacement. My Life is also a fascinating document of social history, describing the conditions of life in twentieth-century Japan as Sumii experienced it: the poverty of sharecroppers, the political movements of the 1920s, the Great Kanto Earthquake, and life on the home front during World War II. The interview was conducted in 1994, when Sumii was ninety-two years old and starting to work on volume eight of The River with No Bridge.

A Novel

Sanshiro

Alan Turney

A key work in the Japanese transition from traditional to modern literature. An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, But when he decides to stay at a near-deserted inn he soon finds himself drawn to the daughter of the

The Three-cornered World

Haunted by tragic secrets, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt.

Kokoro

Natsume Soseki

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

The Gate

A young artist wanders the countryside as part of an experiment to observe everything around him, including people, from a detached aesthetic perspective similar to that of the artists and poets of the past, in a new translation of a classic novel by an author considered the father of modern Japanese fiction. Original.

The Three Cornered World

J. Cohn

After the death of his parents, Botchan leaves Tokyo to be a math teacher in the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district and finds his place in the world among mischievous students and vain, immoral staff members.

Botchan

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

Originally published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1978. (UNESCO collection of representative works. Japanese series)

Natsume Sōseki's Novel Sorekara

And Then

The Gate describes the world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Childless, the couple find themselves having to take responsibility for Sosuke's younger brother. Oyone's health begins to fail, and news that Oyone's ex-husband will be visiting near by promotes a sense of crisis in Sosuke and forces him to abandon his life of quiet domesticity. Prized for the beauty of its description of the understated love between Sosuke and Oyone, the novel has remained in many ways mysterious. A new introduction by Damian Flanagan casts fresh insights into its complex symbolism and ideas, establishing The Gate as one of the most profound works of the modern age.

Io sono un gatto

a modern classic

坊っちゃん

An Unfinished Novel

Light and Darkness

Aiko Ito

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

بوتشان

Indah S. Pratidina

Alan J. Turney

Si existe una obra en la literatura moderna japonesa capaz de producir en el lector una tensión psicológica tan profunda como para provocar una reflexión sincera sobre sus relaciones familiares y personales, esa novela es «El caminante». Un hombre atrapado que no parece encajar en ninguna parte, alienado y abatido, sumido en una lucha constante para encontrar la paz interior.

EL caminante

Sedno rzeczy

Hailed by "The New Yorker "as "rich in understanding and insight," "Kokoro "-- "the heart of things" -- is the work of one of Japan's most popular authors. This thought-provoking trilogy of stories explores the very essence of loneliness and stands as a stirring introduction to modern Japanese literature.

Sanshiro, a naive twenty-three-year-old leaves his rural home for Tokyo and falls in love with Mineko, a young woman he idolizes

Sōseki Natsume

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