Sanshiro
$29.44
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2010
Summary
Jay Rubin’s translation of Soseki’s cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics
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 humour and our awareness of Sanshiro’s doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetratin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140455625 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140455620 |
| Author: | Natsume Soseki, Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 950g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Natsume Soseki
Natsume Soseki (Author)
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) is often considered the greatest modern Japanese novelist. In 1900, his government sent him to England for two years as ‘Japan’s first Japanese English literary scholar’, but he had a miserable time there. Returning to Japan, he wrote his greatest novels, including Botchan, Sanshiro and Kokoro, as well as essays, haiku, and kanshi.
Jay Rubin (Translator)
Jay Rubin is an American translator and academic. He is the translator of several of Haruki Murakami’s major works, including Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Natsume Soseki’s The Miner and Sanshiro and Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. He is the author of Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words and a novel, The Sun Gods.
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