Published here for the first time in English, these essays explore issues close to Soseki's heart: the philosophical and cultural significance of isolation, belonging and identity associated with rapid technological, industrial and cultural change. True to his self-conscious style, each essay includes individual biographical anecdotes, inviting their allegorical reading as stories about the fate of Japan. Together, the essays reveal Soseki's attempts to create a theory of literature that is characteristically Japanese.
- ISBN10 0804836035
- ISBN13 9780804836036
- Publish Date 22 March 2005
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 8 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tuttle Publishing
- Edition Original ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English