夏目漱石

Richly allegorical and delightfully readable, I Am a Cat is the chronicle of an unloved, unwanted, wandering kitten who spends all his time observing human nature - from the dramas of businessmen and schoolteachers to the foibles of priests and potentates. From this unique perfective, author Sōseki Natsume offers a biting commentary - shaped by his training in Chinese philosophy - on the social upheaval of the Meiji era.

A Chinese-translated version of “Botchan”, a semi-autobiography novel originally written by Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki in 1906. Considered one of the best works of Soseki, the story, centering on morality with a humor and sarcasm, is about a new teacher at a middle school in Matsuyama. A long-time school reading, this is a well-known novel for most Japanese.

"Explains essential facts about light and dark, including natural and artificial light, color, and reflection. Includes experiments"--Provided by publisher.

The spectacle of a Japanese visitor to Victorian London was a rare one, and Natusme Soseki's observations contain unique snapshots of London life. This new translation is accompanied fwith a comprehensive critical introduction and a wry fictional account of a meeting between Soseki and Sherlock Holmes.

"Although Natsume Soseki is widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, he began his writing career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. He would later look back on his Theory of Literature (1907) as an immature and unfinished work, but it is in fact an astonishingly original attempt at constructing a model for understanding all literature through the experience of reading." "The Theory of Literature foreshadows the ideas and concepts that would later form the critical foundations of formalism, structuralism, reader-response theory, cognitive science, and postcolonialism. It remains an unprecedented work of literary theory, unmistakably modern yet also clearly (and self-consciously) non-Western. In a later series of lectures and essays, Soseki continued to develop his ideas. This material, some of it never before translated into English, is also included in the volume. The editors offer a critical introduction that contextualizes Soseki's theoretical project historically and explores its contemporary legacy."--Jacket.