Kokoro a Novel - Couverture souple

Soseki, Natsume

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0895269511 ISBN 13 : 9780895269515

Editeur : Learning Innovations, 1967

Synopsis

Book by Natsume Soseki

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

I always called him "Sensei." I shall therefore refer to him simply as "Sensei," and not by his real name. It is not because I consider it more discreet, but it is because I find it more natural that I do so. Whenever the memory of him comes back to me now, I find that I think of him as "Sensei" still. And with pen in hand, I cannot bring myself to write of him in any other way. It was at Kamakura, during the summer holidays, that I first met Sensei. I was then a very young student. I went there at the insistence of a friend of mine, who had gone to Kamakura to swim. We were not together for long. It had taken me a few days to get together enough money to cover the necessary expenses, and it was only three days after my arrival that my friend received a telegram from home demanding his return. His mother, the telegram explained, was ill. My friend, however, did not believe this. For some time his parents had been trying to persuade him, much against his will, to marry a certain girl. According to our modern outlook, he was really too young to marry. Moreover, he was not in the least fond of the girl. It was in order to avoid an unpleasant situation that instead of going home, as he normally would have done, he had gone to the resort near Tokyo to spend his holidays. He showed me the telegram, and asked me what he should do. I did not know what to tell him. It was, however, clear that if his mother was truly ill, he should go home. And so he decided to leave after all. I, who had taken so much trouble to join my friend, was left alone.

Revue de presse

A brilliant piece of narrative . . . Kokoro is exactly what you would ask a novel to be . . . its effect is so fresh, so particular to itself . . . There is no more exhilarating experience than this sort of discovery . . .Soseki manipulates every detail with the same thrilling mastery. --Spectator

Sparsely populated, simple but perfect . . .it is a melancholy but stoical study in lonliness, guilt and self hatred . . . recalls Turgenev both in its economy and perfect symmetry of architecture. --Sunday Telegraph

Great sensitivity and insight --Sunday Times

Sparsely populated, simple but perfect . . .it is a melancholy but stoical study in lonliness, guilt and self hatred . . . recalls Turgenev both in its economy and perfect symmetry of architecture. --Sunday Telegraph

Great sensitivity and insight --Sunday Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Learning Innovations
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0895269511
• ISBN 13: 9780895269515
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible