Botchan

by Natsume Soseki, J. Cohn (Translator), J. Cohn (Introduction)

Overview

Written in 1904 by Soseki Natsume, the foremost novelist of the Meiji period, Botchan is the story of a simple, honest, and direct young man from Tokyo who teaches high school in the provinces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141391885
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/26/2013
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	435,848
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

NATSUME SOSEKI (1867-1916) is one of the best-known Japanese authors of the 20th century and considered as the master of psychological fiction. He wrote 14 novels. As well as his works of fiction, his essays, haiku, and kanshi have been influential and are popular even today.

J. COHN studied Japanese at Cornell and Harvard universities, as well as in Japan, and now teaches Japanese literature at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of a study on the comic spirit in modern Japanese fiction.