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Inside My Glass Doors

DATE: 2018-06-09  SIZE: 2.52 MB    DISKS: 1x 10MB     PAGES: n/a

PUBLISHER: Tuttle Publishing                 GENRE:

AUTHOR: Natsume Soseki, Sammy I. Tsunematsu

FORMAT: EPUB  PROTECTION: DRM  EDITION: n/a

URL: https://is.gd/9TofqX

LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9781462902149

: Originally published as Garusudo no Uchi in daily serialization in the     :
: Asahi newspaper in 1915, before appearing in book form, this is the first  :
: time Inside My Glass Doors has been published in English. It is a moving   :
: literary reminiscence, a collection of thirty-nine autobiographical essays :
: penned a year before the author's death. Written in the genre of shohin    :
: (little items), the personal vignettes provide a kaleidoscopic view of     :
: Natsume Soseki's private world and shed light on his concerns as a         :
: novelist. Readers are at once ushered into Soseki's book-lined study, in   :
: his residence in Kikui-cho, as he muses on his present situation and       :
: reflects on the past. The story is filled with flashbacks to Soseki's      :
: youth-his classmates, his family, and his old neighborhood-as well as      :
: episodes from the more recent past, all related in considerable detail.    :
: There are his characteristic ruminations about his physical well-being, an :
: from the quiet spaces inside the glass doors of his study, he also calmly  :
: observes the clamorous state of the world outside. The essays in this book :
: crafted with extraordinary subtlety and psychological depth, reflect the   :
: work of a great author at the height of his powers.                        :

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