by Natsume Soseki · Gredos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788424935931
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Kokoro, Soseki's masterpiece, is a profound and moving exploration of the moral complexity in human relationships, where much remains unsaid, even in the most intimate settings. The silences and indirect allusions of the work serve as a bridge to the heart of things and people, observed from the unique perspective of Japanese culture and the human condition in general. Kokoro, which means precisely "heart", is an unforgettable reading about love and life, highlighted by its sober and intense poetry.
Natsume Sōseki was a Japanese novelist, poet, and scholar. He is considered one of the greatest writers in modern Japanese history and is often called the first modern novelist of Japan. Sōseki's fiction explored themes of individualism, loneliness, and the conflict between traditional Japanese values and the rapid Westernization of the Meiji era. His major works include I Am a Cat (1905), Botchan (1906), Sanshirō (1908), Kokoro (1914), and his unfinished final novel Light and Dark (1916).
