Natsume Soseki

• Dec-1989
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• Feb-1997
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• Aug-2003
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• Mar-2007
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This collection of ten connected stories or dreams has a surrealistic atmosphere. Some are weird, others are grotesquely funny. Among the ten nights, the first, second, third, and fifth nights start with the same sentence This is the dream I dreamed....

• Feb-2008
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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 ...

• Jul-2009
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“Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.”  -- Haruki MurukamiOne of the best-selling novels of all time in Japan: a modern classic about love, loneliness and profound social changeA classi...

• Feb-2010
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Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic,...

• Mar-2011
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Japan's preeminent modern novelist, Natsume Sôseki (1867-1916), may be better known for his works of fiction Kokoro, Botchan, and I Am a Cat, than for his last novel, Meian, uncompleted at his death, which remains something of an enigma -- a neglect...

• May-2011
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A key work in the Japanese transition from traditional to modern literature "Walking up a mountain track, I fell to thinking.Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept awa...

• Dec-2012
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An NYRB Classics OriginalA 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 u...

• Apr-2013
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A hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, Natsume Soseki's Botchan has enjoyed a timeless popularity in Japan. The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English...

• Dec-2013
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Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and ex...

• Sep-2015
• / Fantasy
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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 Japane...

• Feb-2022
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Ten Nights' Dreams (夢十夜, Yume Jūya) is a classic written work from the Japanese master Natsume Soseki. Originally published in 1908, it announced the emergence in Japanese literature of a modernist and impressionistic mode. ...

• Dec-2024
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This melodrama explores the tangled relationships among friends and families in Meiji-era Japan. Six young men and women grapple with their futures in a country moving from traditional to modern ways. Poppy (Gubijinsō) was the first book publish...

• Jan-2025
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The Miner is the most daringly experimental and least well-known novel of the great Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916). Written in 1908, it explores the indeterminate nature of human personality. An absurdist tale, in many respects, The Mine...

• Sep-2025
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Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a vibrant new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City.'I am a Cat. But I still don't have a name...' Once a stray kitten, I Am a Cat’s narrator finds himself adopted by a local ...

• Dec-2025
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I, ladies and gentlemen, am a cat. I still don???t have a name. Once a stray kitten, the narrator of this story is now a noble and insightful observer of the bizarre and funny foibles of the human beings in his midst. Enter the upper middle-class wor...

• Jul-2026
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Botchan is one of Japan's most popular novels for young people for its meditations upon Japanese culture, lively characters, and coming-of-age theme.The titular character is a young, headstrong and reckless youth who is nevertheless possessed of a se...