BDeBooks
Kusamakura by Soseki Natsume, book cover
World Classics PDF EPUB

Kusamakura

by Soseki Natsume

Downloads
100+
First published
1906
Pages
110
Download

About this book

A painter flees the noise of modern life for a quiet hot-spring inn deep in the mountains, hoping to work in a state of pure aesthetic detachment, free of ordinary human feeling. Instead of finishing a picture, he drifts through poetry, reverie, and long meditations on beauty, art, and the artist's place in the world. His calm is unsettled by O-Nami, the innkeeper's beautiful and unreadable daughter, whose presence keeps pulling him back toward the emotions he wants to leave behind. Sōseki called it a haiku in the form of a novel, and it reads less as a plot than as a sustained argument about how art and life work against each other.

Contents

About the author

Soseki Natsume - BDeBooks
Soseki Natsume

Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) is widely regarded as Japan's greatest modern novelist. Trained in English literature and sent to London on a government scholarship, he came home miserable, left teaching for journalism, and wrote I Am a Cat, Botchan, and Kokoro. His portrait appeared on the 1000 yen note.

More by Soseki Natsume

See all 2 books

More from this genre

See all

Reviews and discussion

No ratings yet. Be the first reader to rate this book.

Rate this book

Pick a star, then sign in. Only readers who confirmed their email can rate.

No comments yet. Share a thought, a question or a favourite passage.

Copyright concern? Read our DMCA policy

Read or download

Public domain book This work is in the public domain and free of copyright. Anyone may read, download and share it.

No download needed. Text reader: adjustable size, font and theme.
  • EPUB 305 KB Best for iPhone, Android, Kobo and tablets
  • KINDLE Send to Kindle Kindle devices and the Kindle app. Uses the same EPUB file. Send
    1. Download the EPUB file to this device.
    2. Open Amazon's Send to Kindle page, sign in, and add the file. Open Send to Kindle (opens in a new tab)

    On a phone: open the downloaded EPUB and share it to the Kindle app.

    You can also email the file to your Kindle address (it ends in @kindle.com) from an email address you approved in your Amazon account.

  • PDF 653 KB Best for computers, laptops and printing

Downloads start right away. How to open EPUB on your phone

Book facts

First published
1906
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
110
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online