Kokoro: Pushkin Press Classics

Natsume Sōseki (1867 - 1916) was a Japanese novelist, widely recognized as one of the most outstanding Japanese writers of the Meiji period. He began writing haikus and literary sketches, and first achieved acclaim for his satirical novel I Am a Cat, published in 1905. Subsequent novels including Sanshiro, Kusamakura and Kokoro established him as an unparalleled novelist of loneliness, isolation and the profound changes to Japanese society that occurred with the end of the Meiji period. Damian Flanagan is an award-winning writer, literary critic and translator. He has written widely on Japanese politics, arts and society. He is the author of several books, and his translation of Soseki's writings on Britain, The Tower of London, won the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.