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Kokoro (こゝろ, or in modern kana usage こころ) is a 1914 Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki, and the final part of a trilogy starting with To the Spring Equinox and Beyond and followed by The Wayfarer (both 1912). [1] Set in the Meiji era, the novel tells of the acquaintance between a young man and an older man called "Sensei" ("teacher ...
Natsume Sōseki. Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. 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 ...
Kokoro implies one’s intellectual responses, or, in other situations, implies one’s emotional reactions, and in many cases, it connotes inclusively the mental, emotional and spiritual states of all sentient beings. Since it is an intangible and elusive word, it is difficult to analyze its meaning and define even in the Japanese language ...
About Kokoro “Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.”—Haruki Murakami The father of modern Japanese literature’s best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half a century
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Feb 23, 2010 · *Starred Review* Kokoro is the great Japanese modern novel. The last its author completed, published in 1914, two years before his death at 48, it voices the spiritual desolation of a society that had deliberately transformed itself from quasi-feudal isolation to determinedly modern player on the world stage in little more than 50 years.
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Feb 23, 2010 · Kokoro. Natsume Soseki. Penguin, Feb 23, 2010 - Fiction - 256 pages. “Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.”—Haruki Murakami. The father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half a century. No collection of Japanese literature is ...
