Sanshirō
Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics, and-most of all-the women,...
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Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics, and-most of all-the women, Sanshiro must find his way among the sophisticates that fill his new life. An incisive social and cultural commentary, Sanshiro is also a subtle portrait of first love, tradition, and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140455625 (0140455620)
Publish date: February 10th 2010
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 256
Edition language: Japanese
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Note on Japanese Name Order and PronunciationChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingTranslator's Note--SanshirōNotes
Sanshiro is the story of the titular character's time in Tokyo as a university student and the relationships he develops. Sanshiro is a naive, country boy, out of place in the ego-centric, increasingly Westernized Tokyo. There isn't a particular plot that is tying everything together: Sanshiro is a ...
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