| Rediscovering Natsume Sōseki: With the First English Translation of Travels in Manchuria and Korea. Celebrating the Centenary of Sōseki's Ar Contributor(s): Brodey, Inger Sigrun (Editor), Brodey, Inger Sigrun (Translator), Tsunematsu, Sammy I. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1901903303 ISBN-13: 9781901903300 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $67.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2000 Annotation: Remarkably, this is the first English-language translation of Soseki's 1909 account of his five-week journey through Manchuria and Korea on the South Manchurian Railway. What emerges is a witty travelogue, with a degree of Western-style humor, recording the journey he took beginning with a boat journey from Osaka to Dairen, then up by railway to Fushun in Manchuria, ending his journey in Korea. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese |
| Dewey: 895.634 |
| Series: Rediscovering |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.58" W x 8.98" (0.74 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First publication in English of Soseki's travels through Manchuria on the then recently-acquired South Manchurian Railway. 6-week travelogue including boat from Osaka to Dairen, railway up the Liaodong Peninsular to Fushun. Many descriptions of Manchuria. It is a lively, informative and sometimes very funny narrative, which reveals Soseki's wit and Western-style humour in observing the human condition, as well as the literary techniques that characterize his subsequent achievements in shaping the modern Japanese novel. The Introduction by Inger Sigrun Brodey provides both a new perspective on Soseki the man and writer, as well as an insightful commentary on the SMR journey itself and the place of the travelogue in Soseki's writings. A selection of Sammy Tsumematsu's collection of previously unpublished photographs of Soseki is also included. |
