Soseki

John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of Natsume Sōseki, the father of the modern novel in Japan. This biography elevates Sōseki to his rightful place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western contemporaries, anticipated twentieth-century modernism.

John Nathan ofera o relatare lucida si vie a lui Natsume Soseki, tatal romanului modern din Japonia. Aceasta biografie il ridica pe Soseki la locul sau de drept un mare sintetizator de traditii literare si un cronicar stralucit al experientei universale care, nu mai putin decat contemporanii sai occidentali, anticipa modernismul secolului al XX-lea.