The Gate (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Soseki, Natsume

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ISBN 10: 1590175875 ISBN 13: 9781590175873

Verlag: NYRB Classics, 2012

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'a jewel of a book, economically written in which every element fits perfectly.'

(Times Literary Supplement)

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A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of late-Meiji Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sosuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of S?suke's brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a way out of this bind, it also soon threatens to dredge up a past that could once again force them to flee the capital. Desperate and torn, Sosuke finally resolves to travel to a remote Zen mountain monastery to see if perhaps there, through meditation, he can find a way out of his predicament.
This moving and deceptively simple story, a melancholy tale shot through with glimmers of joy, beauty, and gentle wit, is an understated masterpiece by the first great writer of modern Japan. At the end of his life, Natsume Soseki declared The Gate, originally published in 1910, to be his favorite among all his novels. This new translation at last captures the original's oblique grace and also corrects numerous errors and omissions that marred the first English version.

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• Verlag: NYRB Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1590175875
• ISBN 13: 9781590175873
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256