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Kokoro / Sōseki Natsume ; translated by Edwin McClellan ; introduction by J. Keith Vincent.
Van Pelt Library PL812.A8 K613 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916, author.
- Series:
- UNESCO collection of representative works. Japanese series
- Japanese series of the Translation Collection of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco).
- Standardized Title:
- Kokoro. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction.
- Alienation (Social psychology).
- Japan--Social conditions--1912-1945--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--1912-1945--Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Natsume Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature." --Haruki MurakamiA 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.
- Notes:
- "This work has been accepted in the Japanese Series of the Translation Collection if the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)"--Copyright page.
- ISBN:
- 9784805319796
- 4805319798
- OCLC:
- 1484905536
- Publisher Number:
- 90103254032
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