About the Author: SÅseki Natsume
Natsume SÅseki (å¤ç›® 漱石, February 9, 1867 – December 9, 1916), born Natsume Kinnosuke (å¤ç›® 金之助) was a Japanese novelist of the Meiji period (1868–1912). He is best known for his novels "Kokoro", "Botchan", "I Am a Cat" and his unfinished work "Light and Darkness". He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note. In Japan, he is often considered the greatest writer in modern Japanese history. He has had a profound effect on almost all important Japanese writers since.
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SÅseki Natsume, Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami
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Paperback, Published in Feb 2009 by Penguin Classics
ISBN10: 0140455620 | ISBN13: 9780140455625
Page count: 235
SÅseki's work of gentle humour and doomed innocence depicts twenty-three-year-old SanshirÅ, a recent graduate from a provincial college, as he begins university life in the big city of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics and – most of all – the women, SanshirÅ must find his way amongst the sophisticates that fill his new life. An incisive social and cultural commentary, SanshirÅ is also a subtle study of first love, tradition and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age.
In his introduction, Haruki Murakami reflects on his fascination with SanshirÅ, how the story differs from a European coming-of-age novel and why it has come to be a perennial classic in Japan. This edition also contains suggestions for further reading, notes and a chronology.
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