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I am a Cat by Soseki Natsume ... Beer and Crocodiles by Roff Smith
Dog Day Afternoon by Leslie Waller*
I am a Cat by Soseki Natsume
The Merry Hippo by Elspeth Huxley
The Day No Pigs Would Die
by Robert N. Peck
*writing as Patrick Mann ... a classic)
Depending on how I go for time, I may also try to read either Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen or Natsume Soseki's Kokoro in the original Japanese. Maybe. ... others to read, so if I had to suggest 10 books the would probably be something like this.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Kokoro
The Good Earth
The Plague
100 Years of Solitude/Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Language in Thought and Action
Robot Dreams < A short story, but ... ... Nathanael West
665. The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
705. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
749. Kokoro Natsume Soseki
751. Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
803. Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz
816. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
848. Anna Kar ... ... in
708 A Passage to India
717 Siddhartha
726 The Age of Innocence
733 Summer
743 The Thirty-Nine Steps
744 Kokoro
749 Sons and Lovers
750 Death in Venice
754 Howards End
761 A Room With a View
769 The Forsyte Sage on Mount TBR
772 Where Angels Fear to Tread
77 ... ... Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson 09/28/09
317. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson 09/30/09
318. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki 09/30/09
FILM: La notte (1961) ... Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson 09/28/09
317. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson 09/30/09
318. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki 09/30/09 ... conveys his pain. Dazai's writing style is precise and spare. I found the book to be similar to Soseki's Kokoro. Recommended.
The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo
This book focuses on two medical interns and a nurse who participated in brutal and murderous medical ... ... about the path his life should take but instead, at the end, accepts that life is an uncertain business.
(I finished Kokoro just a bit before reading this. I sure seem to be reading about slackers a lot these days.) ... about the path his life should take but instead, at the end, accepts that life is an uncertain business.
(I finished Kokoro just a bit before reading this. I sure seem to be reading about slackers a lot these days.) ... about the path his life should take but instead, at the end, accepts that life is an uncertain business.
(I finished Kokoro just a bit before reading this. I sure seem to be reading about slackers a lot these days.) I read Kokoro and liked it very much. On the strength of that, I bought Botchan, which I haven't read yet, but was planning to read soon. I hope I like it a bit more than you seem to have. It sounds like a very different kind of book. Lovely impressions of what is one of my favorite Soseki works, dcozy.
Given your appreciation of Kokoro, I suspect you might enjoy Soseki's other great serious novels, such as Mon and Sorekara or his impressionistic short work like Inside My Glass Doors or The 210th Day more than Botc ... ... copy, open it and found it . . . okay. Not terrible, but not great.
I have, however, just completed another Soseki, Kokoro, and did, in fact find it marvelous. Written in 1914, it seems quite different from contemporary Western novels in its quiet simplicity, and its formal integrity. W ... ... copy, open it and found it . . . okay. Not terrible, but not great.
I have, however, just completed another Soseki, Kokoro, and did, in fact find it marvelous. Written in 1914, it seems quite different from contemporary Western novels in its quiet simplicity, and its formal integrity. W ... ... from being human.
Dazai's writing style is precise, spare and spot-on. I found the book similar in tone to Soseki's Kokoro. The themes and subject matter of the book are not those I ordinarily would embrace. The book, however, is a thoughtful work by an important Japanese writer.
Rec ... I Am a Cat *
by Natsume Soseki
*sometimes translated as "I am THE Cat" ... and simply say "The Complete Dialogues"!)
Language in Thought and Action by Hayakawa
Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
The Analects of Confucius
The Bible
Ficciones by Borges
The Plague by Camus
The Collective Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Mere Chris ... ... as Second Prize Wang; unless the joke was intended, the translator really missed the mark, imo) reminded me a little bit of Kokoro. I also saw evidence of the everyday brutality and lack of sensitivity that the North Korean memoir Aquariums of Pyongyang said that Communism breeds. On the whole, ... I'm pretty sure the name of the guy who commits suicide (after finding out the "Sensei" married his girlfriend) is Kokoro. The narrator of the story is a nameless student. Another classic. ... Wharton, 1960', 2000's
78. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann, 2000's
79. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence, 1960's
80. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki, 2008
81. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maughm, 1960's
82. The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford, 2000's
83. Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, 2 ... ... take-way is a mood or a sense of time and place, and usually a quiet one.
Mori Ogai's Wild Goose, Kokoro by Soseki Natsume, Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki Mori Ogai are just a few. There are dozen's more that seem to provide this "quiet" thing in the read.
... ... {9/17}
28. The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner {9/25}
29. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow {9/27}
30. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki {9/30}
31. L'invitation by Claude Simon {10/10}
32. Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton {10/13}
33. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton {10/14}
... I just picked upa copy of Kokoro by Natsume Soseki from the book shelf of my library today. Perhaps I'll read that. ... isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences" (wiki)
- most famous for Kokoro, Botchan and I am a cat.
- I can personally recommend Sorekara (And Then) although a bit difficult to find
Junichiro Tanizaki, m
- most famous work in Engli ... April = exams, but also lots of reading to put off studying for those exams :)
Kokoro was ok, I'd give it 3 stars. It didn't seem very "Japanese," the story could've taken place anywhere or at any time with a few minor tweakings. I feel like if someone British had writtten it, it wouldn' ... ... the Baskervilles
54. Heart of Darkness
55. Young Törless
56. The Secret Agent
57. The Old Wives’ Tale
58. Kokoro
59. The Great Gatsby
60. Mrs. Dalloway
61. To The Lighthouse
62. Orlando
63. All Quiet on the Western Front
64. A Farewell to Arms
65. Cold Comfor ... ...
Some longer reads, for a free day:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Sexing the Cherry and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
... ... Mayor of Casterbridge
Nostromo and Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth
Kokoro
Works by Robert Frost
Stories by Chekov and Lu Hsun
Zuleika Dobson
Stories by Joyce and Portait of an Artist as a Young Man
Stories by Kafka and The Trial
... I read Kokoro several months ago. Lovely and elegiac.
How about If on a Winter's Night a Traveler? ... in. I've read The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test but remember very little about it. It was so long ago, sorry.
How about Kokoro? ... Cranes, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, Kokoro, The Three-Cornered World.
There is something in each of these which lingered with me long after I put the text down. I wonder will I, now older (but not old), ... ... Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
4-5. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
4-6. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
4-7. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
4-8. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks ... A Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey by Ann Rinaldi
2. Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
3. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
(edit Jan. 18)
4. Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene
5. Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli I read Kokoro by Soseki Natsume a few days ago, the Edwin McClellan translation. Really enjoyed the last third of it, but thought the first two chapters were empty and dry. They set up the facts to make the final chapter so strong, but didn't seem to do much storytelling in the process. ... Now I have all but a couple of the 50 he recommends.
I think the first I read in this more dedicated period was Kokoro by Nastume Soseki. I was floored by it. It too is quite oblique. But now I LIKE oblique!
And like it more with each work of Japanese fiction I encounter.
... ... refreshingly optimistic.
I also enjoyed Akutagawa's Rashomon and Kawabata's The Izu Dancer. Soseki's Kokoro was another nice book.
One writer I simply can't read, though, is Murakami Ryu. I somehow managed to finish Almost Transparent Blue but, honestly, I wish I ... Soseki's i am a cat is always a good place to start. For somthing more serious try his kokoro. For something more contemporary try Yoshimoto Banana. Good luck. ... Sasemeyuki, I'd probably recommend Some Prefer Nettles myself.
Soseki was the great novelist of the Meiji era. Kokoro, originally serialized in Asahi Shimbun, is a true classic. His comic novel Botchan remains hugely popular in Japan.
Mori Ogai is another major novelist of ...
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