Sanshiro (Penguin Classics)
Sanshiro (Penguin Classics) by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Jay Rubin
English | February 23, 2010 | ISBN: 0140455620 | True EPUB | 235 pages | 2.8 MB
English | February 23, 2010 | ISBN: 0140455620 | True EPUB | 235 pages | 2.8 MB
Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics, and-most of all-the women, Sanshiro must find his way among the sophisticates that fill his new life.
An incisive social and cultural commentary, Sanshiro is also a subtle portrait of first love, tradition, and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age.