Kokoro
Natsume, SōsekiPenguin Classics · 2010
The great early modern novelist Natsume Soseki’s most famous novel, and the last he completed before his death, explores the relationships of two men woven through the difficulties of living in a rapidly changing Japan.
Details
- Title
- Kokoro
- Translation of
- こころ (Kokoro)
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Media
- Page Count
- 256
- ISBN 13
- 9780143106036
- Author
- Natsume, Sōseki
- Translator
- McKinney, Meredith
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
Blurb
Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor Meiji gave way to a new era in Japanese politicial and cultural life, the novel enacts the transition from one generation to the next in the dynamic between Sensei, who is haunted by mysterious events in his past, and the unnamed young man, one of the new generation's elite who will inherit the coming era.
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