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Sanshirō

Author : Natsume Sōseki
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513288326
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Sanshirō written by Natsume Sōseki and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanshirō (1908) is a novel by Natsume Sōseki. Inspired by the author’s experience as a student from the countryside who moved to Tokyo, Sanshirō is a story of family, growth, and identity that captures the isolation and humor of adjusting to life on one’s own. Recognized as a powerful story by generations of readers, Sanshirō is a classic novel from one of Japan’s most successful twentieth century writers. Raised on the island of Kyushu, Sanshirō Ogawa excels in high school and earns the chance to continue his studies at the University of Tokyo. On his way there, he naively accepts an invitation to share a room with a young woman in Nagoya, realizing only too late that she has other things than sleep in mind. As he adjusts to life in the big city, he finds himself stumbling into more uncomfortable situations with women, radical political figures, and interfering colleagues, all of which shape his sense of identity while teaching him the value of trust, courage, and self-respect. While he misses his family and friends in Kyushu, Sanshirō learns to value his newfound independence, forming friendships that will last a lifetime. Sanshirō proves a gifted student but struggles to understand the intricacies of academic life. As he begins a relationship with the lovely Mineko, he begins to doubt his ability to defy tradition. Will he return home to raise a family in Kyushu, or remain in Tokyo to chart a path of his own? Eminently human, Sanshirō is a beloved story of isolation, morality, and conflict from a master of Japanese fiction. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Natsume Sōseki’s Sanshirō is a classic work of Japanese literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Gate

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175875
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gate written by Natsume Soseki and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sōsuke’s brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a way out of this bind, it also soon threatens to dredge up a past that could once again force them to flee the capital. Desperate and torn, Sōsuke finally resolves to travel to a remote Zen mountain monastery to see if perhaps there, through meditation, he can find a way out of his predicament. This moving and deceptively simple story, a melancholy tale shot through with glimmers of joy, beauty, and gentle wit, is an understated masterpiece by one of Japan’s greatest writers. At the end of his life, Natsume Sōseki declared The Gate, originally published in 1910, to be his favorite among all his novels. This new translation captures the oblique grace of the original while correcting numerous errors and omissions that marred the first English version.

To the Spring Equinox and Beyond

Author : Natsume Sōseki
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Spring Equinox and Beyond written by Natsume Sōseki and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-03-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume dissects the human personality in all its complexity in this unforgettable narrative. Keitaro, a recent college graduate, lives a life intertwined with several other characters, each carrying their own emotional baggage. Romantic, practical, and philosophical themes enable Soseki to explore the very meaning of life.

These Ghosts Are Family

Author : Maisy Card
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982117443
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book These Ghosts Are Family written by Maisy Card and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley. And now, nearing the end of his life, Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter, Irene Paisley, a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead. These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel’s decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others, like the houseboy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley’s actions. This “rich and layered story” (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a “beguiling…vividly drawn, and compelling” (BookPage, starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret.

Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

Author : Sōseki Natsume
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231518315
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings written by Sōseki Natsume and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand how and why we read. The text anticipates by decades the ideas and concepts of formalism, structuralism, reader-response theory, and postcolonialism, as well as cognitive approaches to literature that are only now gaining traction. Employing the cutting-edge approaches of contemporary psychology and sociology, Soseki created a model for studying the conscious experience of reading literature as well as a theory for how the process changes over time and across cultures. Along with Theory of Literature, this volume reproduces a later series of lectures and essays in which Soseki continued to develop his theories. By insisting that literary taste is socially and historically determined, Soseki was able to challenge the superiority of the Western canon, and by grounding his theory in scientific knowledge, he was able to claim a universal validity.

Kokoro

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684513758
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Kokoro written by Natsume Soseki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novel sustains throughout its length something approaching poetry, and it is rich in understanding and insight. The translation, by Edwin McClellan, is extremely good." —Anthony West, The New Yorker Kokoro, which means "the heart of things," explores emotions familiar to everyone—love and hate, hope and despair, companionship and loneliness. Sensei, a man seen against the rich background of old Japan entering the modern era, is outwardly successful. He has position, wealth, a charming wife. But deep in the heart of things, he is harried with a profound sense of isolation whose cure lies only in "faith, madness, or death." His long-hidden secret, divulged to a young friend who faces a similar dilemma, is told with mounting intensity. Sensei confesses the crime of his young manhood, a crime in which, with all the appearance of innocence, he destroyed his best friend, the woman he loved—and himself. The genius of Natsume Soseki, Japan’s greatest modern novelist, lies in his ability to express universal emotions with the beautiful restraint of the Japanese spirit. Under his pen, themes which have become almost hackneyed take on new fascination and vigor.

Kusamakura

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101097558
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Kusamakura written by Natsume Soseki and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or "beauty," is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's word painting. In the author's words, Kusamakura is "a haiku-style novel, that lives through beauty." Written at a time when Japan was opening its doors to the rest of the world, Kusamakura turns inward, to the pristine mountain idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship scenes, enshrining the essence of old Japan in a work of enchanting literary nostalgia.

Three Cornered World

Author : Natsume Suseki
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895267689
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Three Cornered World written by Natsume Suseki and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1988-11-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman.

The Tale of Saigyō

Author : Meredith McKinney
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Tale of Saigyō written by Meredith McKinney and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of a wandering poet-monk in medieval Japan.

The Poems of Nakahara Chūya

Author : Chūya Nakahara
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852442555
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Nakahara Chūya written by Chūya Nakahara and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed English translation of poems by one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan's early modern poets: Nakahara Chuya. Now ranked among the finest Japanese verse of the 20th century, influenced by both Symbolism and Dada, he created lyrics renowned for their songlike eloquence, their personal imagery and their poignant charm.

Botchan

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681951657
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Botchan written by Natsume Soseki and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comic Japanese Novel “One may be branded foolishly honest if he takes seriously the apologies others might offer. We should regard all apologies a sham and forgiving also as a sham; then everything would be all right. If one wants to make another apologize from his heart, he has to pound him good and strong until he begs for mercy from his heart” ― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan Botchan by Natsume Sōseki is a classic Japanese coming of age novel about a young man who is sent from Tokyo to the countryside to teach mathematics at a middle school. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

A Fictional Commons

Author : Michael K. Bourdaghs
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021926
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Fictional Commons written by Michael K. Bourdaghs and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and the struggle to obtain or preserve material wealth while also imagining alternative ways of owning and sharing. For Sōseki, literature was a means for thinking through—and beyond—private property. Bourdaghs puts Sōseki into dialogue with thinkers from his own era (including William James and Mizuno Rentarō, author of Japan’s first copyright law) and discusses how his work anticipates such theorists as Karatani Kōjin and Franco Moretti. As Bourdaghs shows, Sōseki both appropriated and rejected concepts of ownership and subjectivity in ways that theorized literature as a critical response to the emergence of global capitalism.

Ten Nights Dreaming

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486807231
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Ten Nights Dreaming written by Natsume Soseki and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murderer discovers his true nature from a talking infant, a samurai is frustrated in his attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories. The dream-like, open-ended tales by the father of Japanese modernist literature offer thought-provoking reflections on fear, death, and loneliness. Their settings range from the Meiji period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the era in which the tales were written, to the prehistoric Age of the Gods; the twelfth-century Kamakura period, in which the samurai class emerged; and the remote future. A scholar of British literature, author Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was also a composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. The stories of Ten Nights Dreaming, which were originally published as a newspaper serial, constitute milestones of Japanese fantasy. Like Sōseki's other writings, they have had a profound effect on readers, writers, and filmmakers. This edition features an expert new English translation by Matt Treyvaud, who has translated the story "The Cat's Grave" for this work as well.

私の個人主義、文芸の哲学的基礎英文版

Author : 夏目漱石
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9784805307670
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book 私の個人主義、文芸の哲学的基礎英文版 written by 夏目漱石 and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these rare personal essays, Soseki defines the role of art in light of the isolation of the modern world. Each essay includes personal anecdotes that act as allegories about the fate of Japan. In her introduction, Soseki expert Dr. Inger Sigrun Brodey masterfully unravels the complexities of the two essays.

Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition

Author : Soseki Natsume
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462922392
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition written by Soseki Natsume and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form! Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society in early 20th century Tokyo. Written with biting wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a rather cynical stray kitten. He finds his way into the home of an English teacher, where his running commentary on the follies and foibles of the people around him has been making readers laugh for more than a century. This is the very first manga edition in English of this classic piece of Japanese literature. The story lends itself well to a graphic novel format, allowing readers to pick up on the more subtle cues of the expressive cat, while also being immersed in the world of his perceptive narration. It is true to classic manga form, and is read back to front. Beautifully illustrated by Japanese artist Chiroru Kobato, this edition provides a visual, entertaining look at a unique period in Japan's history--filled with cultural and societal changes, rapid modernization and a feeling of limitless possibility--through the eyes of an unlikely narrator.

Nowaki

Author : Soseki Natsume
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 1929280688
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Nowaki written by Soseki Natsume and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives and minds of three men come together in ways that are both commonplace and surprising

210th Day

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290209X
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book 210th Day written by Natsume Soseki and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as Nihyaku Toka in 1906, The 210th Day is published here for the first time in English. Focusing on two strongly contrasting characters, Kei and Roku, as they attempt to climb the rumbling Mount Aso as it threatens to erupt, it is a celebration of personal experience and subjective reaction to an event in the author's life. During their progress up the mountain—where they encounter a storm on the 210th day (the lunar calendar day traditionally associated with typhoons)—and during a stopover at an inn along the way, Roku, the main protagonist, banters with Kei about his background, behavior and his reaction to the things they see. Kei surprises his easy–going friend by advocating a radical social agenda. Written almost entirely in the form of an extended dialogue, carried over several episodes, the book reveals Soseki's gift for the striking image and his vivid imagination, as well as his talent for combining Eastern and Western genres—the Western auto–biography and the Japanese traditional literary diary—into a work with a unified theme and atmosphere. In his Introduction to the book, Dr Marvin Marcus, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Washington University, provides insight into Soseki's life and work.