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Rediscovering Natsume Soseki, Travels in Manchuria & Korea: Brodey & Tsunematsu
Rediscovering Natsume Soseki, Travels in Manchuria & Korea: Brodey & Tsunematsu
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Rediscovering Natsume Soseki: First English Translation of "Travels in Manchuria & Korea"
By Natsume Soseki, translated by Inger Sigrun Brodey & Sammy I. Tsunematsu.
Published by Global Oriental, Kent, 2000. Hardback cover with dust jacket (unclipped) 155 pages. Includes photography, black & white.
CONDITION
Overall very good condition, just a small sticker residue mark to bottom left front dustjacket. See photos. No names or writing.
First publication in English of Soseki’s travels through Manchuria on the then recently-acquired South Manchurian Railway. 6-week travelogue including boat from Osaka to Dairen, railway up the Liaodong Peninsular to Fushun. Many descriptions of Manchuria.
It is a lively, informative and sometimes very funny narrative, which reveals Soseki's wit and Western-style humour in observing the human condition, as well as the literary techniques that characterize his subsequent achievements in shaping the modern Japanese novel.
The Introduction by Inger Sigrun Brodey provides both a new perspective on Soseki the man and writer, as well as an insightful commentary on the SMR journey itself and the place of the travelogue in Soseki's writings. A selection of Sammy Tsumematsu's collection of previously unpublished photographs of Soseki is also included.
(Bindery shelves)
