Kokoro

Por Soseki Natsume

Coincidiendo con el centenario de su aparición, Impedimenta publica una nueva traducción de la obra maestra de Sōseki, que prefiguraría la de autores de la importancia de Akutagawa, Kawabata o Murakami. "Kokoro" ("corazón", en japonés) narra la historia de una amistad sutil y conmovedora entre dos personajes sin nombre, un joven y un enigmático anciano al que conocemos como "Sensei". Atormentado por trágicos secretos que han proyectado una larga sombra sobre su vida, Sensei se abre lentamente a su joven discípulo, confesando indiscreciones de sus días de estudiante que han dejado en él un rastro de culpa, y que revelan, en el abismo aparentemente insalvable de su angustia moral y su lucha por entender los misterios del amor y el destino, el profundo cambio cultural de una generación a la siguiente que caracterizó el Japón de principios del siglo XX.
Ninguna biblioteca de literatura japonesa estaría completa sin "Kokoro", la novela más lograda de Natsume Sōseki, la más profunda y la última que completó antes de su muerte.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Editorial Impedimenta SL
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 2 oct 2014
• ISBN: 9788416542215

Soseki Natsume

Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) was a Japanese novelist. Born in Babashita, a town in the Edo region of Ushigome, Sōseki was the youngest of six children. Due to financial hardship, he was adopted by a childless couple who raised him from 1868 until their divorce eight years later, at which point Sōseki returned to his biological family. Educated in Tokyo, he took an interest in literature and went on to study English and Chinese Classics while at the Tokyo Imperial University. He started his career as a poet, publishing haiku with the help of his friend and fellow-writer Masaoka Shiki. In 1895, he found work as a teacher at a middle school in Shikoku, which would serve as inspiration for his popular novel Botchan (1906). In 1900, Sōseki was sent by the Japanese government to study at University College London. Later described as “the most unpleasant years in [his] life,” Sōseki’s time in London introduced him to British culture and earned him a position as a professor of English literature back in Tokyo. Recognized for such novels as Sanshirō (1908) and Kokoro (1914), Sōseki was a visionary artist whose deep commitment to the life of humanity has earned him praise from such figures as Haruki Murakami, who named Sōseki as his favorite writer.