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The Three Cornered World by Natsume Soseki, Alan Turney (translation) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Three Cornered World is the novelistic expression of the contrast between the Western ethical view of reality & the Eastern ethical view by one of Japan's most beloved authors. Natsume Soseki tells of an artist who retreats to a country resort & becomes involved in a series of mysterious encounters with the owner's daughter. Intricately interwoven with the author's reflections on art & nature, conversations with Zen monks & writers of haiku, are a plethora of unique Japanese characters offering the reader an exquisite "word painting." NATSUME SŌSEKI is universally recognized to be Japan’s greatest modern novelist. BornNatsume Kinnosuke in Edo in 1867, the year before the city was renamedTokyo, he survived a lonely childhood, being traded between foster & biologicalparents, was deeply schooled in both the Chinese classics & English, & at the age of 22 chose from a Chinese source the defiantly playful pen name Sōseki (“Garglestone”) to signify his sense of his own eccentricity. In 1893, Sōseki became the second graduate of (Tokyo) Imperial University’s English Department & entered the graduate program, but in 1895 he abruptly took a position teaching English in a rural middle sc

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Author

Natsume Soseki, Alan Turney (translation)

Publisher

Gateway Editions

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction