Sōseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist

by John Nathan

Book Overview

Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231171439
• ISBN13: 9780231171434
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"