Sōseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist

ISBN-13: 9780231171427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str.

John Nathan

Opis

John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of Natsume Soseki, the father of the modern novel in Japan. This biography elevates Soseki 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 twentieth-century modernism.

Recenzje

It's been half a century since the appearance of the most recent English-language biography of Natsume Soseki, one of the giants of twentieth-century world literature, so the arrival of John Nathan's fine new study is cause for celebration. Soseki's life story often reads like one of his novels, and Nathan captures it in prose worthy of his subject. Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago

O autorze

John Nathan is the Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Mishima: A Biography (1974) and Sony: The Private Life (1999), among others. He is the translator of Soseki's last novel, Light and Dark (Columbia, 2014), as well as of works by Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburo oe. Nathan is also an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker.