Natsume Sōseki

"The subject of 'Kokoro,' which can be translated as 'the heart of things' or as 'feeling,' is the delicate matter of the contrast between the meanings the various parties of a relationship attach to it. In the course of this exploration, Soseki brilliantly describes different levels of friendship, family …

Texte intégral révisé précédé d'une introduction et d'une biographie de Natsume Soseki. Il manquait à la littérature japonaise un livre d'humour véritable que la culture des bourgeois d'Edo elle-même, pourtant étonnamment féconde en auteurs comiques, n'avait pu produire parce qu'elle n'allait jamais au-delà du comique …

Botchan est un roman de l'auteur japonais Natsume Sôseki, publié en 1906. Ce court roman est un des plus populaires du Japon. Chaque écolier japonais le lit au cours de sa scolarité. Ce roman est très largement autobiographique et se rapporte au séjour de l'auteur à Matsuyama 10 ans plus tôt. Nous sommes dans le Japon …

Sanshirō is a novel by the Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki. The novel was originally published as a serialized work in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun between September and December 1908. The novel relates the story of Sanshirō Ogawa, a 23-year-old from the countryside of Kyushu who travels to the city for the …

The Three Cornered World is the novelistic expression of the contrast between the Western ethical view of reality and the Eastern ethical view by one of Japan's most beloved authors. Natsume Soseki tells of an artist who retreats to a country resort and becomes involved in a series of mysterious encounters with the …

This collection of ten connected stories or dreams has a surrealistic atmosphere. Some are weird, others are grotesquely funny. Among the ten nights, the first, second, third, and fifth nights start with the same sentence "This is the dream I dreamed." Whether Sosecki actually had these dreams or whether they were …