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(★)(Translated by Edwin McClellan／ Titulo original : こころ[kokoro]／ ´Kokoro´, an exploration of the fundamental loneliness inherent in all society, tells the story of a solitary and intensely torn scholar during the turbulent Meiji era. A chance encounter on the beaches of Kamakura irrevocably links a young student to a man he simply calls ´Sensei.´ Intrigued by Sensei´s aloofness and wanting to know more about him, the student begins to call upon Sensei with more and more frequency. Slowly, Sensei and his beautiful wife begin to open their home and lives to him. While walking through Tokyo and drinking tea together, Sensei hints at the reasons for his aloofness and withdrawal from the world. When the young student graduates from university and is called home to his dying father, Sensei once again draws him back to Tokyo with a long letter which finally tells the complete tale of guilt in his marriage and what he believes to be his betrayal of a friend. Written in 1914, ´Kokoro´ provides a timeless psychological analysis of a man´s alienation from society and starkly but gently shows the depth of both friendship and love.／ ◆Sooseki Natsume (1867-1916) is considered the greatest novelist of the Meiji era and one of Japan´s finest modern writers. Educated at Tokyo Imperial University, he was sent to England in 1900 as a government scholar. he returned to Japan three years later and became a full-time writer in 1907, after teaching English literature at the Imperial University. As one of the first writers to be influenced by Western culture, his various works are read by virtually all Japanese, and contemporary Japanese writers continue to be affected by his ´oeuvre´. Although Sooseki claimed he was largely uninfluenced by his native literary tradition, his works retain a unique Japanese flavor. to them. ´Kokoro´, written in his later years, is recognized as one of his most important works.) |
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