I therefore ask that you keep all this to yourself, a secret intended for your eyes alone. Throughout the book, an unwillingness to bring up significant matters leads to misunderstanding and disaster, and even the closing sentences of the novel are an appeal to discretion: Many details - from names to what the characters study at university to the substance of their conversations - remain unspecified or vague. The chapters are extremely short (there are a total of 110), artificially chopping up the narrative into two-page bits, which helps prevent much of a sense of intimacy developing. The novel is presented in three parts, the first two narrated by an anonymous young man, the last in the form of a letter that an older man he looks upon as his mentor (and whom he calls Sensei) writes to him. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure.įor much of Kokoro the novel seems singularly unrevealing. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. (.) Soseki's Kokoro has an unforgettable atmosphere of the loneliness and mysteriousness of man's relationship with man." - Anthony Thwaite, Times Literary Supplement " Kokoro is perhaps his masterpiece: a slice of nineteenth-century naturalism purified and transmuted so that its final effect is poetic."The flowering cherries, the pomegranate trees - the novel suffuses the reader with a sense of old Japan." - Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times."(A) brilliant study of self-hatred and guilt." - Emma Hagestadt, The Independent.* refers to review of an older translation Previously translated by Ineko Sato (1941) and Edwin McClellan (1957)ī+ : odd, elusively told - but build-up finally pays off.Translated and with an Introduction by Meredith McKinney.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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