His typical heroes are well-educated middle-class men who have betrayed, or who have been betrayed by, someone close to them and through guilt or disillusionment have cut themselves off from other men. They deal with man’s effort to escape from loneliness. His third book, Kusamakura (1906 The Three-Cornered World), is a lyrical tour de force about a painter’s sojourn in a remote village.Īfter 1907, when he gave up teaching to devote himself to writing, he produced his more characteristic works, which were sombre without exception.

Both satirize contemporary philistines and intellectual mountebanks. His reputation was made with two very successful comic novels, Wagahai-wa neko de aru (1905–06 I Am a Cat) and Botchan (1906 Botchan: Master Darling). In 1903 he became lecturer in English at the University of Tokyo. Natsume took a degree in English from the University of Tokyo (1893) and taught in the provinces until 1900, when he went to England on a government scholarship. 9, 1916, Tokyo), outstanding Japanese novelist of the Meiji period and the first to ably depict the plight of the alienated modern Japanese intellectual. Natsume Sōseki, pseudonym of Natsume Kinnosuke, (born Feb.

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