![]() Sensei is clearly well-educated, but does not work and (unlike Professor Hirota in Sanshiro) seems to have lost his interest in intellectual pursuits. ![]() A young university student meets, by complete chance, an older man whom he calls “Sensei,” who lives with his wife in isolation and idleness. The style and atmosphere of the novel elicit bewilderment and fascination, which parallel the feelings of the protagonist. It has become his signature, certainly in the English-speaking world, and to some extent in Japan as well (although in schools they prefer to teach his early novels). Kokoro was finished two years before Soseki’s death, and is representative of his late work. ![]()
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