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024 7 _a10.7312/nath17142
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780231546973
035 _a(DE-B1597)499034
035 _a(OCoLC)1032379038
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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072 7 _aBIO007000
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082 0 4 _a895.63/42
_qOCoLC
_223/eng/20230216
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNathan, John
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSōseki :
_bModern Japan's Greatest Novelist /
_cJohn Nathan.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_b7 b&w photos
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aAsia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Beginnings --
_t2. School Days --
_t3. Words --
_t4. The Provinces --
_t5. London --
_t6. Home Again --
_t7. I Am a Cat --
_t8. Smaller Gems --
_t9. The Thursday Salon --
_t10. A Professional Novelist --
_t11. Sanshirō --
_t12. A Pair of Novels --
_t13. Crisis at Shuzenji --
_t14. A Death in the Family --
_t15. Einsamkeit --
_t16. Grass on the Wayside --
_t17. The Final Year --
_tNotes --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aNatsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima.In this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his life. He traces Sōseki’s complex and contradictory character, offering rigorous close readings of Sōseki’s groundbreaking experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion. Drawing on previously untranslated letters and diaries, published reminiscences, and passages from Sōseki’s fiction, Nathan renders intimate scenes of the writer’s life and distills a portrait of a tormented yet unflaggingly original author. The first full-length study of Sōseki in fifty years, Nathan’s biography elevates Sōseki to his rightful place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western contemporaries, anticipated the modernism of the twentieth century.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aNovelists, Japanese
_y20th century
_vBiography.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/nath17142
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231546973
856 4 2 _3Cover
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