Rediscovering Natsume Soseki - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1901903303 ISBN 13: 9781901903300

Publisher: Brill, 2001

Synopsis

First publication in English of Soseki's travels through Manchuria on the then recently-acquired South Manchurian Railway. 6-week travelogue including boat from Osaka to Dairen, railway up the Liaodong Peninsular to Fushun. Many descriptions of Manchuria. It is a lively, informative and sometimes very funny narrative, which reveals Soseki's wit and Western-style humour in observing the human condition, as well as the literary techniques that characterize his subsequent achievements in shaping the modern Japanese novel. The Introduction by Inger Sigrun Brodey provides both a new perspective on Soseki the man and writer, as well as an insightful commentary on the SMR journey itself and the place of the travelogue in Soseki's writings. A selection of Sammy Tsumematsu's collection of previously unpublished photographs of Soseki is also included.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1901903303
• ISBN 13: 9781901903300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 156
• Editor: Brodey Inger Sigrun, Tsunematsu Sammy I