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Vastly refreshing . . . Soseki doesn t shrink from seeking and finding exquisite pearls of beauty. --Guardian
A writer to be judged by the highest standards. His works create, after the fashion of all great writers, a new and completely individual reality. --Spectator
The greatest Japanese novelist of the modern period --Sunday Telegraph
A writer to be judged by the highest standards. His works create, after the fashion of all great writers, a new and completely individual reality. --Spectator
The greatest Japanese novelist of the modern period --Sunday Telegraph
A writer to be judged by the highest standards. His works create, after the fashion of all great writers, a new and completely individual reality. --Spectator
The greatest Japanese novelist of the modern period --Sunday Telegraph
A writer to be judged by the highest standards. His works create, after the fashion of all great writers, a new and completely individual reality. --Spectator
The greatest Japanese novelist of the modern period --Sunday Telegraph
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Opening with the most famous introductory lines in Japanese literature, The Three Cornered World has been cherished by generations of readers as a glittering jewel in the crown of Soseki s artistic achievement. A painter escapes to a mountain spa to work in a world free of emotional entanglement, but finds himself fascinated by the alluring mistress at his inn and, inspired by thoughts of Millais Ophelia, he imagines painting her. The woman is rumoured to have abandoned her husband and fallen in love with a priest at a nearby temple, but somehow the right expression for the face on her painting eludes the artist . . . Beautifully written, humorous and filled with bitter-sweet reflections on the human condition, The Three Cornered World was intended as a unique haiku-novel with a mood utterly different to anything ever produced in the West. Demonstrating along the way a mastery of everything from Western painting to Chinese literature, Soseki succeeded in an artistic tour-de-force that produced what legendary recording artist Glenn Gould would simply refer to as his favourite book .
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Translation... My god.
13 Jun 2011
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Having read a good dozen of Natsume Soseki's books, I can assure you that not liking this one based purely off Soseki's merit isn't possible. Every book I've read by the author so far has left me in awe, and so when I ordered the Three-Cornered World I expected yet another amazing Soseki read. How disappointed I was though. I thoroughly believe that my hatred for this book stems from the translator, and not Natsume Soseki. I've had complications with the translator's translations in the past when I've read Murakami's books. I really wasn't impressed by Alan Turney. He was redundant, and made overall interesting topics into long-winded, arbitrary one's. He's just not a good writer. And so I have to sadly give this book a 1. Giving up on page 97, I really just couldn't take it anymore. I wouldn't recommend getting this copy of the book. If there are any other translations out there, then I urge you to try and obtain one of those instead.
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