Natsume Sōseki
Japanese novelist
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JapanHe wrote the collision between old Japan and the West — not as spectacle, but as interior damage. Sōseki's novels mapped loneliness, ego, and the cost of modernization with a precision that made him the template for the Japanese psychological novel.
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Born in 1867 as the Meiji Restoration began reshaping Japan, Natsume Kinnosuke was given up for adoption twice before graduating from Tokyo Imperial University as a scholar of English literature. The government sent him to London in 1900; he spent two years in poverty and racial isolation, suffering a severe nervous breakdown that shadowed the rest of his life. He returned to lecture at Tokyo Imperial, then broke through in 1905 with I Am a Cat, a satirical novel that made him famous. In 1907 he resigned to write full-time for the Asahi Shimbun — a first for Japan, the birth of the professiona…
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