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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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Book Details

Language
English
Hardcover/Paperback
paperback
ISBN
978-0-14-310519-0
Year
2008
No. of pages
152
Edition
1st Edition
Weight
150 g
Quality Check
book is complete, there are no pages missing
Publisher
Penguin Books
Comics Style
top boards slightly worn (due to storage), otherwise very good condition

Description

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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