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Author Soseki, Natsume.

Title Light and Dark : a Novel.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (433 pages).
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Series Weatherhead Books on Asia
Weatherhead books on Asia.
Note Published in 1917, Light and Dark is unlike any of Natsume Soseki's previous works and unique in Japanese fiction of the period. What distinguishes the novel as?modern" is its remarkable representation of interiority. The protagonists, Tsuda Yoshio, thirty, and his wife O-Nobu, twenty-three, exhibit a gratifying complexity that qualifies them as some of the earliest examples of three-dimensional characters in Japanese fiction. O-Nobu is quick-witted and cunning, a snob and narcissist no less than her husband, passionate, arrogant, spoiled, insecure, naive?yet, above all, gallant. Under Soseki'
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Japan -- Fiction.
Japan.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Added Author Nathan, John, 1940-
Other Form: Print version: 9780231161428
ISBN 9780231536189 (electronic book)
0231536186 (electronic book)