Kusamakura
2008
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3.81
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This is an early middle-length novel by Natsume Soseki, a literary figure of the Meiji period. It was first published in New Novel [1906]. It was first published in New Novel [1906]. If you let your emotions get the better of you, you will be swept away. If you give in to your feelings, you will be carried away; if you give in to your will, you will be cramped. The world of mankind is a hard place to live in. The world is hard to live in anyway. The protagonist, a thirty-year-old painter, dislikes civilization and travels from Tokyo to a hot spring inn in the mountains (Koten hot spring in Kumamoto), where he meets the inn's beautiful daughter, Nami. The story unfolds as Nami's paintings unfold, and along the way, a literary vision and an aesthetic of "impersonality" are developed, which suggests that poetry that allows us to be free from worldly desires is the true art. This is a work with a strong taste for loitering and haiku.
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Author
Natsume Soseki
Author · 46 books
Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note. In Japan, he is often considered the greatest writer in modern Japanese history. He has had a profound effect on almost all important Japanese writers since.
