This author wrote a novel in which the protagonist keeps his ill father company by playing games of chess atop a foot warmer, and a priest's son obsessed with the concept of "the concentration of the mind" leaves a suicide note, which ends by asking "Why did I wait so long to die?
This author wrote a novel in which the protagonist keeps his ill father company by playing games of chess atop a foot warmer, and a priest's son obsessed with the concept of "the concentration of the mind" leaves a suicide note, which ends by asking "Why did I wait so long to die?" This author began that book with the narrator pleading with his friend to be allowed to accompany him on visits to that suicide victim's grave. One character created by this author obsessively works at grinding glass balls to create frog-eye lenses, and another, who encourages calmness as kids keep intruding on his friend's property to retrieve lost baseballs, is named Singleman Kidd. He fiÂctionalized his own teaching experience in a popular novel about a mathematics teacher who works with Redshirt, and he wrote about the love triangle between Ojosan, K, and Sensei in a bookwhose untranslated title roughly means "the heart of things." This author wrote a novel in which the scientist Avalon Coldmoon visits Mr. Sneaze's pet, who gets drunk and drowns in a clay pot full of water. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of Botchan, Kokoro, and I Am a Cat.
This author wrote a novel in which the protagonist keeps his ill father company by playing games of chess atop a foot warmer, and a priest's son obsessed with the concept of "the concentration of the mind" leaves a suicide note, which ends by asking "Why did I wait so long to die?
Natsume Soseki [accept either name; also accept Natsume Kinnosuke]