Soseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist (Asia . Nathan Paperback**

Name: Soseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist (Asia . Nathan Paperback**
Brand: Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press

S?sekiModern Japan's Greatest Novelist\nAuthor(s): John Nathan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231171434, 978-0231171434\nSynopsis\nNatsume S?seki [tel] was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima.\n\nIn this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his life. He traces S?sekis complex and contradictory character, offering r.