Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies: My Life : Living, Loving, and Fighting (Series #26) (Paperback)

from stillatim

I suspect I want to like this book more than I do, and I suspect that's not Soseki's fault. It's a campus novel set in Japan, with nice "what is the point of modern Japan?" stuff thrown in. The characters are fun (rather than 'rounded' or whatever), the story is mild. There's political satire, an...

from TakeItOrLeaveIt

A vivid and bittersweet telling of a country boy adapting to university life in big city Tokyo circa 1909. More than that, is precisely crafted emotions of Sanshiro himself, a young man who lives a life as authentically as possible immersed by the naturalization of modernity perpetuating his rura...

from PhoenixTerran

Sanshirō is the second novel by Natsume Sōseki that I have had the opportunity to read. The first was his masterpiece Kokoro, which I loved. Sanshirō was initially serialized in Japan between 1908 and 1909. Penguin Classics' 2009 translation by Jay Rubin is revised from Rubin's original 1977 tran...

from DRFP

A rather middling and unsatisfying novel by the usually brilliant Sōseki. The opening scene on the train is excellent but thereafter the novel fails to evolve, rather like its main character. Sanshirō is an appealing main character but he is constantly held back by his timid and inexperienced nat...

from xuebi

Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki is the tale of a newly-arrived university student named Sanshirō who must find his way amid the busy city and its traffic, academics, and the women that fill Tokyo. As well as commenting on the social and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Tokyo as experienced by the ...