Sōseki : : Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist / / John Nathan.
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 memor...
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Nathan, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Sōseki : Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist / John Nathan. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource : 7 b&w photos text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. School Days -- 3. Words -- 4. The Provinces -- 5. London -- 6. Home Again -- 7. I Am a Cat -- 8. Smaller Gems -- 9. The Thursday Salon -- 10. A Professional Novelist -- 11. Sanshirō -- 12. A Pair of Novels -- 13. Crisis at Shuzenji -- 14. A Death in the Family -- 15. Einsamkeit -- 16. Grass on the Wayside -- 17. The Final Year -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima.In this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his life. He traces Sōseki’s complex and contradictory character, offering rigorous close readings of Sōseki’s groundbreaking experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion. Drawing on previously untranslated letters and diaries, published reminiscences, and passages from Sōseki’s fiction, Nathan renders intimate scenes of the writer’s life and distills a portrait of a tormented yet unflaggingly original author. The first full-length study of Sōseki in fifty years, Nathan’s biography elevates Sōseki to his rightful place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western contemporaries, anticipated the modernism of the twentieth century. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Novelists, Japanese 20th century Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package 9783110649826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606607 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2018 English 9783110604184 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2018 9783110603187 ZDB-23-DKU print 9780231171427 https://doi.org/10.7312/nath17142 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231546973 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231546973/original |
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