Sanshiro - Soseki, Natsume
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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, the academics, and-most of all-the women, Sanshiro must find his way among the sophisticates that fill his new life. An incisive social and cultural commentary, "Sanshiro" is also a subtle portrait of first love, tradition, and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age.
'Even bigger than Japan is the inside…mehr

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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, the academics, and-most of all-the women, Sanshiro must find his way among the sophisticates that fill his new life. An incisive social and cultural commentary, "Sanshiro" is also a subtle portrait of first love, tradition, and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age.
'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything'

Soseki's work of gentle humour and doomed innocence depicts twenty-three-year-old Sanshiro, 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, Sanshiro must find his way amongst the sophisticates that fill his new life. An incisive social and cultural commentary, Sanshiro is also a subtle study of first love, tradition and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age.

This Penguin Classics edition of Soseki's beloved novel is translated by Jay Rubin with an introduction by Haruki Murakami.
Autorenporträt
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), one of Japan's most influential modern writers, is widely considered the foremost novelist of the Meiji era (1868-1914) and a master of psychological fiction. As well as his works of fiction, his essays, haiku, and kanshi have been influential and are popular even today. Jay Rubin (translator) is an American translator and academic. He is the translator of several of Haruki Murakami's major works. Haruki Murakami (introducer) is one of Japan's most admired and widely read novelists, whose work has been translated into more than fifty languages. His more than twenty books include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, and Killing Commendatore. Born in Kyoto in 1949, Murakami now lives near Tokyo.