Natsume Sōseki
Paperback | Pages: 172 pages Rating: 3.6 | 8190 Users | 1004 Reviews
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| Title | : | Botchan |
| Author | : | Natsume Sōseki |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 172 pages |
| Published | : | March 16th 2007 by Kodansha (first published 1906) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. Japan. Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Classics |
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Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic of its kind. Among Japanese readers both young and old it has enjoyed a timeless popularity, making it, according to Donald Keene, "probably the most widely read novel in modern Japan."The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys' school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small.
Much of the story seems to occur in summer, against the drone of cicadas, and in many ways this is a summer book light, funny, never slow-moving. Here, in a lively new translation much better suited to Western tastes than any of its forebears, Botchan's homespun appeal is all the more apparent, and even those who have never been near the sunlit island on which these calamitous episodes take place should find in it uninterrupted entertainment.
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| Original Title: | 坊っちゃん |
| ISBN: | 4770030487 (ISBN13: 9784770030481) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2006), Premi Llibreter de narrativa (2008) |
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Ratings: 3.6 From 8190 Users | 1004 ReviewsJudge Of Books Botchan
Now that I thought about it, though, I realized that most people actually encourage you to turn bad. They seem to think that if you don't, you'll never get anywhere in the world. And then on those rare occasions when they encounter somebody who's honest and pure-hearted, they look down on him and say he's nothing but a kid, a Botchan. If that's the way it is, it would be better if they didn't have those ethics classes in elementary school and middle school where the teacher is always telling youNow this is a Japanese classic about morale, but I had to look this up, to really get it.The novel follows a rather dislikable character, who looks down on others and is very judgmental. However, he is also a very simple and straightforward guy, following what he beliefs is right and honest behavior.We mainly watch him in a village surrounding on his first assignment after his studies. He is a teacher in a school and there are many situations, where he gets into trouble with other
I really enjoyed this one - a bit odd, but very funny! It's a kind of coming of age story, looking at a young man from Tokyo dealing with the gossipy strange world of a small town when he moves there to be a teacher. It kind of reminds me of Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh.
This novella was neither thought-provoking nor entertaining. My lack of enjoyment, in some part, may have been due to the fact that it's a satire of a specific social order that I'm not familiar with -- but the bulk of the problem lay in the book's over-simplicity.The intrigues between the 2-dimensional characters (that make up the bulk of the story) are trite, dramaless and inspire no emotional reaction from the reader. Each of the faculty members has one or two personal qualities and does not
This was fun, short, verging on sweet. Because I am not entirely sure what I took from it morally (unless I am to imagine it's a straight a,b,c growing up tale - I'm not sold that it is), I can't really say I found it completely sweet. I don't know what the word is because amoral, lacking morals, all have a bad sense about them. Maybe it had empty morals. Or maybe even morals that really weren't morals at all.------I'm totally enjoying this book. Also, I'm freaked out because it randomly
There was something quirky in this book that I just really liked. Loved the blunt narration and the narrator's dry humor and lack of sensitivity. Funny story with a few honest-to-goodness gems of interpersonal insight.
Faculty politics is nasty and brutish. Natsume Sōseki also shows us that it can be funny. A young graduate is sent to a country town in southern Japan and finds himself in a middle school where the faculty politics is unrelenting and devastating. The book Botchan is Japanese for "young master." Though he lasts scarcely a month, he manages to wreak revenge on "Red Shirt" and "Clown" in a satisfying way, which I will not describe here for fear of ging away the plot.This is a quick read and a
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