Soseki's acutely observed recollections of his unique experience as a Japanese scholar in Victorian London. The spectacle of a Japanese visitor to Victorian London was a rare one, and Natusme Soseki's observations contain unique snaptshots of London life. This new translation provides the perfect in[...]

For the first time in one volume - one of the classics of Japanese literature translated by Aiko Ito.[...]

A modern classic in Japan on par with "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" or "The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan" is a very popular Japanese novel and still widely read decades after its first publication.
"Botchen," a timeless Japanese novel written by Japan's most beloved novelist, Soseki Natsum[...]

Boka handler om det nære vennskapet mellom hovedpersonen, som er en ung student, og hans læremester Sensei. Den viser de forskjellige nivåer av vennskap, og de midler det moderne mennesket benytter for å unnslippe sin grunnleggende ensomhet.[...]

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) är en av Japans mest kända författare. Hans romaner har översatts till många språk, också svenska. Som haikupoet är han mindre känd utanför Japan, trots att han publicerade flera tusen haiku och var en av de tongivande haikupoeterna under sin tid. I denna diktsam[...]

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's live[...]

Literally meaning 'Pillow of Grass', "Kusamakura" is Soseki's portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. Soseki's artist attempts to live as a hermit using other people as his stimuli for his sensations and reflections. The artist fluently and prolifica[...]

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remar[...]