"El eco fantasmal de un koto, uno de los relatos menos conocidos de Natsume Sôseki, es la historia del narrador, que está a punto de casarse y se ve sugestionado por la supersticiosa anciana que cuida su casa, quien le habla de una maldición que pondrá en juego la vida de su prometida si no la abandona. La inquietud que siembra en él va agudizándose con los diferentes sucesos que sufre en cuestión de pocas horas (una lluvia torrencial, la charla sobre fenómenos paranormales con un amigo psicólogo, conversaciones en la barbería sobre seres fantásticos de Japón…) y desemboca en un sorprendente desenlace donde se mezclan soberbiamente episodios fantasmagóricos con otros que desbordan comicidad y costumbrismo."
"An NYRB Classics Original
A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of 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 Sosuke'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 one of Japan's greatest writers. 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 captures the oblique grace of the original while correcting numerous errors and omissions that marred the first English version."
"Una colección de historias delicadas, meditativas y casi zen que nos transporta a la misma paz interior de su autor. Natsume Sōseki nos presenta una mirada a la cotidianidad de su Japón contemporáneo, a la fragilidad de sus impresiones y a la belleza que se encuentra en un soplo de aire.
Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.
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Natsume Soseki es un autor nacido en Tokio en 1867. Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesas por la Universidad de Tokio, ejerció de profesor hasta la consagración que le granjeó su primera y rotunda novela, Yo soy un gato. Se lo considera un certero analista de la realidad nipona de su época."
""Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature."-Haruki Murakami
The father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half a century
No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro-meaning 'heart'-is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls 'Sensei.' Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student's struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century."
"A stunning new English translation-the first in more than forty years-of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction
Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura-meaning "grass pillow"-follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or 'beauty,' is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's word painting. In the author's words, Kusamakura is 'a haiku-style novel, that lives through beauty.' Written at a time when Japan was opening its doors to the rest of the world, Kusamakura turns inward, to the pristine mountain idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship scenes, enshrining the essence of old Japan in a work of enchanting literary nostalgia."
"Botchan es un indiscutible clásico de la moderna literatura japonesa y, desde hace más de cien años, una de las novelas más celebradas por los lectores de aquel país. Considerada el Huckleberry Finn nipón, y comparada también con El guardián entre el centeno, narra las aventuras de Botchan, un joven tokiota descreído y cínico, alter ego de Soseki, al que mandan como profesor a una escuela rural situada en la remota isla de Shikoku. En su nuevo destino pronto se topará con una serie de insólitos personajes, como el jefe de estudios «Camisarroja» o el «Calabaza», un triste profesor de ciencias de aspecto enfermizo y ánimo sombrío. Pero sobre todo se verá obligado a hacer frente a una auténtica caterva de fieros alumnos asilvestrados, que se consagrarán a hacerle la vida imposible."
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