| Kokoro Contributor(s): Soseki, Natsume (Author), McClellan, Edwin (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0486451399 ISBN-13: 9780486451398 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: Hailed by "The New Yorker "as "rich in understanding and insight," "Kokoro "-- "the heart of things" -- is the work of one of Japan's most popular authors. This thought-provoking trilogy of stories explores the very essence of loneliness and stands as a stirring introduction to modern Japanese literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006040319 |
| Lexile Measure: 890 |
| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (0.49 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rich in understanding and insight.--The New Yorker What is love, and what is friendship? What is the extent of our responsibility to ourselves and to others? Kokoro, signifying the heart of things, examines these age-old questions in terms of the modern world. A trilogy of stories that explores the very essence of loneliness, Kokoro opens with Sensei and I, in which the narrator recounts his relationship with an intellectual who dwells in isolation but maintains a sophisticated worldview. My Parents and I brings the reader into the narrator's family circle, and Sensei and His Testament features the eponymous character's explanation of how he came to live a life of solitude. Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), perhaps the greatest novelist of the Meiji period, remains one of Japan's most widely read authors. He wrote this novel in 1914, at the peak of his career, and it remains an excellent introduction to modern Japanese literature. |