Soseki Natsume: 34 books

This classic Japanese story by Soseki Netsume-the foremost novelist of the Meiji Period—is a masterpiece of Japanese literature. This book demonstrates Soseki Natsume's ability to dissect and elucidate the human personality in all its complexity. Here, his facile blending of narrative, extended...

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 meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn...

The great Japanese author’s most famous novel, in its first new English translation in half a century   No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation...

The Miner is the most daringly experimental and least well-known novel of the great Meiji writer Natsume Soseki. An absurdist tale about the indeterminate nature of human personality, written in 1908, it was in many ways a precursor to the work of Joyce and Beckett. The result is a novel that is both absurd and comical, and a true modernist classic.

A modern classic in Japan on par with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is a very popular Japanese novel and still widely read decades after its first publication. Botchan, a timeless Japanese novel written by Japan's most beloved novelist, Soseki Natsume,...

"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...

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively...

First published as Nihyaku Toka in 1906, The 210th Day is published here for the first time in English. Focusing on two strongly contrasting characters, Kei and Roku, as they attempt to climb the rumbling Mount Aso as it threatens to erupt, it is a celebration of personal experience and subjective...

Guanciale derba narra di un giovane artista, pittore e poeta, che si avventura per un ameno sentiero di montagna di un piccolo villaggio giapponese. Lungo il cammino, in unatmosfera incantata, incontra viandanti solitari, contadini, paesani, nobili a cavallo e ogni specie dumanità, finché, sorpreso...

S_suke e Oyone sono due sposi che conducono una sobria e, in apparenza, tranquilla esistenza. In realtà, il rimorso pesa sul loro cuore. La loro unione ha, infatti, determinato tempo addietro la rovina di Yasui, il compagno di studi di S_suke, lelegante, spensierato amico duniversità dai vestiti...

È l'inizio del ventesimo secolo e in Giappone l'Era Meiji, lepoca del grande Rinnovamento, avanza impetuosa con le sue sconvolgenti modernizzazioni. Daisuke _ i baffi che con studiata eleganza cadono appena sul labbro superiore, le guance floride, la pelle dotata di una calda lucentezza _ appartiene...

An NYRB Calssics Original A 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 unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke...

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 Japanese modernist literature offer thought-provoking...

Il 30 luglio 1912 si spense in Giappone limperatore Meiji. Nei giorni successivi, durante i solenni funerali di Stato, il generale Nogi, il vincitore dellesercito russo, in un atto di junshi, di accompagnamento del proprio signore nella morte, si uccise insieme con la propria moglie. I due eventi...