Light and darkness
Subtitle: an unfinished novel.
By: Translated from the Japanese, with a critical essay by V. H. Viglielmo.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Series: UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Japan -- Fiction
Description: "Japan's preeminent modern novelist, Natsume Sôseki (1867-1916), may be better known for his works of fiction Kokoro, Botchan, and I Am a Cat, than for his last novel, Meian, uncompleted at his death, which remains something of an enigma -- a neglected masterpiece. A simple plot summary doesn't do it justice: the marriage of Tsuda and O-Nobu is threatened when Kobayashi and others begin dropping hints about another woman. Tsuda departs on a trip to rendezvous with the woman in question, Kiyoko, his former fiancée. The novel is a study of human character, a marriage tested, and what it means to be an individual in the modern world." -- Amazon.com
Notes: Translation of Meian.