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Natsume Sōseki

Born

in Tokyo, Japan

February 09, 1867

Died

December 09, 1916

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

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Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目金之助), was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note. In Japan, he is often considered the greatest writer in modern Japanese history. He has had a profound effect on almost all important Japanese writers since.

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Average rating: 3.83 · 112,109 ratings · 13,835 reviews · 890 distinct works • Similar authors

	Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki, Edwin McClellan (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 43,420 ratings — published 1914 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am a Cat 3.67 avg rating — 18,417 ratings — published 1906 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Botchan by Natsume Sōseki, Joel Cohn (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 16,352 ratings — published 1906 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki, Jay Rubin (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 6,208 ratings — published 1908 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Three-Cornered World by Natsume Sōseki, Alan Turney (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 5,763 ratings — published 1906	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gate by Natsume Sōseki, Francis Mathy (Translator), Damian Flanagan (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 2,839 ratings — published 1910 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Then by Natsume Sōseki, Norma Moore Field (Translator), 吴树文 (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 2,193 ratings — published 1909 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Nights' Dreams by Natsume Sōseki, Lovetta R. Lorenz, Takumi Kashima 3.64 avg rating — 2,238 ratings — published 1908 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Miner by Natsume Sōseki, Jay Rubin (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 1,954 ratings — published 1908 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am a Cat: I by Natsume Sōseki, Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson (Translator) 3.21 avg rating — 1,974 ratings — published 1910 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Natsume Sōseki

I am a Cat (3 books)
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Natsume Sōseki,

Graeme Wilson,

Aiko Ito

3.62 avg rating — 20,884 ratings

吾輩は猫である (青い鳥文庫) (2 books)
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Natsume Sōseki,

Yoko Sano (Illustrator)

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating

Quotes by Natsume Sōseki (?)

“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

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“I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

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“You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men.”
― Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

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September 2022 New School Classic Group Read

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 1967, 189 pages

58 votes, 30.1%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages

40 votes, 20.7%

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1938, 513 pages

30 votes, 15.5%

I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 1905, 480 pages

30 votes, 15.5%

Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1930, 480 pages

13 votes, 6.7%

Permutation City by Greg Egan, 1994, 352 pages

12 votes, 6.2%

Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel, 1926, 247 pages

10 votes, 5.2%

193 total votes

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