Kokoro - Softcover

Soseki, Natsume

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ISBN 10: 1466402644 ISBN 13: 9781466402645

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

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Natsume Soseki is best known for his novel Kokoro, a word which literally means "heart", and has shades of meaning which can be translated as "the heart of things" or "feeling". The work deals with the transition from traditional Japanese society to the modern era, by exploring the friendship between a young man and an older man he calls "Sensei" (or teacher).

It continues the theme of isolation developed in Soseki's earlier works. Other important themes in the novel include the changing times, the changing roles and ideals of women, and intergenerational change in values, the role of family, the importance of the self versus the group, the cost of weakness, and identity.

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This book is in Electronic Paperback� Format. If you view this book on any of the computer systems below, it will look like a book. Simple to run, no program to install. Just put the CD in your CDROM drive and start reading. The simple easy to use interface is child tested at pre-school levels.

Windows 3.11, Windows/95, Windows/98, OS/2, MacIntosh PPC OS 8.1 or higher, and Linux with Windows Emulation.

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Each book is either read aloud by a actor or (for Window/95-98-ME and MacIntosh systems) by an electronic voice. For the electronic voice to work you must have TTS software installed. The Apple distributed TTS for MacIntosh: an SAPI compliant TTS for Windows.

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About the Author:

“Natsume Soseki” was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke. He is considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era. He was a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry. He wrote fairy tales in Chinese literature.

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