And Then: Natsume Sōseki's Novel Sorekara

Sōseki Natsume

Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997 - Fiction - 277 pages

Originally published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1978. (UNESCO collection of representative works. Japanese series)

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 21

About the author

Natsume Soseki's early education included the study of Chinese classics and architecture, but as an English literature major he found his life's work, as well as the friendship of haiku poet Masaoka Shiki, an important personal and literary influence. Soseki's prose, for example, is often interspersed with his own haiku. In 1900 the Japanese government sent Soseki, who was a professor of English literature, to London, but, poorly funded and isolated, he found his years abroad painful and began to exhibit neurotic behavior. On his return, he shocked society by giving up his teaching position at Tokyo University to write fiction for the Asahi newspaper, a profession associated with the world of "entertainers." Despite poor health in the last years of his life, Soseki continued to write an average of one novel a year.

Bibliographic information

• Title: And Then: Natsume Sōseki's Novel Sorekara; Issue 17 of Michigan classics in Japanese studies; UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series
• Author: Sōseki Natsume
• Translated by: Norma Field
• Publisher: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Oct 22, 2007
• ISBN: 0939512823, 9780939512829
• Length: 277 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary