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Kusamakura (SOSEKI, Natsume)

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A lyrical masterpiece by the father of modern Japanese literature. Notsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or "beauty," is the center of this elegant novel...

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Weight150 g
ISBN978-0-14-310519-0
LanguageEnglish
Checkedbook is complete, there are no pages missing
No. of pages152
Year2008
Comics Styletop boards slightly worn (due to storage), otherwise very good condition
Hardcover/Paperbackpaperback
Edition1st Edition
PublisherPenguin Books

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A lyrical masterpiece by the father of modern Japanese literature.

Notsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or "beauty," is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's word pointing. In the author's words, Kusamakura is "a haiku-style novel, that lives through beauty."

Written at a time when Japan was opening its doors to the rest of the world, Kusamakura turns inward, to the pristine mountain idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship scenes, enshrining the essence of old Japan in a work of enchanting literary nostalgia.

Translaled with an Inlroduction by MEREDITH McKINNEY.

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