{"product_id":"sanshiro-natsume-soseki","title":"Sanshiro (Natsume Soseki)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoseki's work of gentle humour and doomed innocence depicts twenty-three-year-old Sanshiro, a recent graduate from a provincial college, as he begins university life in the big city of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics and - most of all - the women, Sanshiro must find his way amongst the sophisticates that fill his new life. An incisive social and cultural commentary\u003ci\u003e, Sanshiro\u003c\/i\u003e is also a subtle study of first love, tradition and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Penguin Classics edition of Soseki's beloved novel is translated by Jay Rubin with an introduction by Haruki Murakami.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNatsume Soseki (1867-1916) is often considered the greatest modern Japanese novelist. In 1900, his government sent him to England for two years as 'Japan's first Japanese English literary scholar', but he had a miserable time there. Returning to Japan, he wrote his greatest novels, including \u003ci\u003eBotchan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSanshiro \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKokoro, \u003c\/i\u003eas  well as essays, haiku, and kanshi.\n\u003cb\u003eJay Rubin\u003c\/b\u003e is an American translator and academic. He is the translator of several of Haruki Murakami's major works, including \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003eNatsume Soseki's \u003ci\u003eThe Miner \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSanshiro \u003c\/i\u003eand Ryunosuke Akutagawa's \u003ci\u003eRashomon and Seventeen Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHaruki Murakami and the Music of Words \u003c\/i\u003eand a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Gods\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 288 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66219141103965,"sku":"K076509230","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7650923000001A.jpg?v=1792048848","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/sanshiro-natsume-soseki","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}