Natsume Soseki - Kokoro - Japansk klassiker! (på engelsk)

Om boken:

"Kokoro, meaning ''heart'', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor Meiji gave way to a new era in Japanese politicial and cultural life, the novel enacts the transition from one generation to the next in the dynamic between Sensei, who is haunted by mysterious events in his past, and the unnamed young man, one of the new generation''s elite who will inherit the coming era."

På norsk:

"Boka handler om det nære vennskapet mellom hovedpersonen, som er en ung student, og hans læremester Sensei. Den viser de forskjellige nivåer av vennskap, og de midler det moderne mennesket benytter for å unnslippe sin grunnleggende ensomhet."

Om forfatteren:

"Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), one of Japan's most influential modern writers, is widely considered the foremost novelist of the Meiji era (1868-1914). Born Natsume Kinnosuke in Tokyo, he graduated from Tokyo University in 1893 and then taught high school English. He went to England on a Japanese government scholarship, and when he returned to Japan he lectured on English literature at Tokyo University and began his writing career with the novel Botchan. Numerous nervous disorders forced him to give up teaching in 1908, and he became a full-time writer. He wrote fourteen novels, including I Am A Cat and Kusamakura, as well as haiku, poems in the Chinese style, academic papers on literary theory, essays, autobiographical sketches, and fairy tales. His work enjoyed wide popularity in his lifetime and secured him a permanent place in Japanese literature."