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(★)(Titulo original : 三四郎[Sanshiroo]／ Translated and with a critical essay by Jay Rubin／ While the works of Natsume Soseki, the great Meiji-era novelist, continue to enjoy wide recognition and popularity in Japan, they are still poorly represented in English. Now available for the first time in English translation is Soseki´s 1908 work, ´Sanshiro´, a perennial best seller in Japan.／ ´Sanshiro´, a product of Soseki´s early maturity as a writer, presents issues and characters that are as alive today as they were in the Japan of Soseki´s day. The protagonist, a young man of twenty-three, innocently and uncomprehendingly experiences for the first time the shadowy, ceaselessly moving ´real world´ of Tokyo and the University --a world where a young man´s future is never more than an illusion. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki´s lively humor and our awareness of Sanshiro´s doomed innocence, the novel comes to life.／ Jay Rubin´s translation of ´Sanshiro´ is accurate and engaging while retaining fidelity of language and style with the original. He includes with the translation an extended study of ´Sanshiro´ and its place among Soseki´s works. This examination, which illustrates consistent elements in the symbolic language in all of Soseki´s novels, is the first of it kind to appear in English. Students of world literature and especially of Japanese literature will welcome this translation of ´Sanshiro´. In addition, the panorama of late Meiji-era Tokyo presented in the book will be of interest to historians.／ ◆Jay Rubin is associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of Washington.) |
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