Kokoro

Name: Kokoro
Brand: Gateway Editions
SKU: SP-9780895267153
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"One of the honorable ancestors of a brilliant generation of novels." --Donald Barr, New York Times

Marc Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: 1957.;Gateway editions--Cover.

Biographical Note:
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) remains one of the most widely read authors in Japan over a century after his death. Born in Tokyo and educated first at the Imperial University and then in England, he spent many years lecturing to Japanese students on English literature. His novels and essays are known for examining the conflicts between old and new, and between East and West.

Edwin McClellan (1925-2009) was a professor of Japanese literature at Yale University. Born and raised in Japan, he was educated at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and was serving as a fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago when his celebrated translation of Kokoro was published in 1957. His translation was later selected for the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.

Publisher Marketing:
Nineteenth-century Japanese novel concerned with man's loneliness in the modern world.

Publisher Marketing:
"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.

Contributor Bio:Soseki, Natsume
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) remains one of the most widely read authors in Japan over a century after his death. Born in Tokyo and educated first at the Imperial University and then in England, he spent many years lecturing to Japanese students on English literature. His novels and essays are known for examining the conflicts between old and new, and between East and West.

Contributor Bio:McClellan, Edwin
Edwin McClellan (1925-2009) was a professor of Japanese literature at Yale University. Born and raised in Japan, he was educated at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and was serving as a fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago when his celebrated translation of Kokoro was published in 1957. His translation was later selected for the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.

Author: Soseki, Natsume
Publisher: Gateway Editions
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 1996-07-01
BISAC: Fiction / Literary|Fiction / World Literature / Japan|Fiction / Classics
Subjects: Loneliness|Interpersonal relations|Social conditions|Japan
Weight: 0.64 lbs
ISBN: 9780895267153
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780895267153