介紹 Sōseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist by John Nathan .. Kōjin Karatani (柄谷 行人,"Origins of Modern Japanese Literature",....魏哲家，謝志偉，德國總理蕭茲（Olaf Scholz）歐盟執委會主席范德賴恩（Ursula von der Leyen）...........歐巴馬與賀錦麗：志趣相投、投桃報李0821 “don’t sit around and complain about things. Do something.” (Michelle Obama’s Speech at the Democratic Convention). 介紹 Sōseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist Book by John Nathan

 

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SOSEIKI'S A THEORY OF LITERATURE

Those vague, impractical speculations

• "[...] 'What is literature?' was the question Soseki wanted to address, yet this was the very thing that made his passion so private, so difficult to share with others.

• The question itself was too new. For British readers of the time, literature was literature. Insofar as 'literature' was something that encompassed them, the kind of doubt Soseki harbored could not arise.

• Of course, as Michel Foucault has observed, the concept of 'literature' itself was a relative newcomer to European civilization in the nineteenth century. Soseki, although his very life was encompassed by 'literature,' could not escape from his doubts about it.

• They were doubts that seemed all the more iconoclastic in Japan of 1908, where 'literature' had just firmly established itself.

• Soseki's view was seen, not as an anachronism, but as an eccentricity.

• Certainly this response must have

dampened his ardor for theory. We might at first glance take 'A Theory of Literature' to be literary theory....

• Natsume Soseki published the notes from his lectures on English literature at Tokyo University under the title 'A Theory of Literature (Bungakuron)' in 1906, just three years after returning from London.

• By that time he had already attracted attention as a novelist and had immersed himself in the writing of fiction. Since he initially conceived of 'A Theory of Literature' in terms of a ten-year plan, its publication at this point in time signaled his abandonment of that plan.

• 'A Theory of Literature' as we know it today, then, is just one small part of Soseki's original, ambitious conception.

• Soseki expressed mixed feelings in the preface he attached to the work: a sense of estrangement, as one who had become absorbed in creative writing, toward these 'vague, impractical speculations,' as well as a feeling that he really could not give up his vision. Certainly both these sentiments were genuine; they were, in fact, the very basis for Soseki's creative activity."

- Kojin Karatani. (1993: 11-12). "Origins of Modern Japanese Literature", UK: Duke Uni Press.Kōjin Karatani (柄谷 行人, Karatani Kōjin, born August 6, 1941, Amagasaki) is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic.

魏哲家，謝志偉，德國總理蕭茲（Olaf Scholz）歐盟執委會主席范德賴恩（Ursula von der Leyen）...........歐巴馬與賀錦麗：志趣相投、投桃報李0821  “don’t sit around and complain about things. Do something.”   (Michelle Obama’s Speech at the Democratic Convention).  

Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石, 9 February 1867 – 9 December 1916),

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Sōseki

Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist

John Nathan

Columbia University Press

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Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima.

In this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his life. He traces Sōseki's complex and contradictory character, offering rigorous close readings of Sōseki's groundbreaking experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion. Drawing on previously untranslated letters and diaries, published reminiscences, and passages from Sōseki's fiction, Nathan renders intimate scenes of the writer's life and distills a portrait of a tormented yet unflaggingly original author. The first full-length study of Sōseki in fifty years, Nathan's biography elevates Sōseki to his rightful place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western contemporaries, anticipated the modernism of the twentieth century.

About the Author

John Nathan is Koichi Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Mishima: A Biography (1974) and Sony: The Private Life (1999), among other titles. He is the translator of Sōseki’s last novel, Light and Dark (Columbia, 2014), as well as works by Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburō Ōe. Nathan is also an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker.