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Item Details
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THE MINER
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| By: |
Soseki Natsume, Natsume Soseki, Jay Rubin (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£29.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804714606 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804714600 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 1988 |
| Pages: |
201 |
| Translated from: |
Japanese |
| Description: |
Written in 1908, this absurdist novel about the indeterminate nature of human personality anticipates the work of Joyce and Beckett. Almost devoid of plot and characterization, it unfolds within the mind of the protagonist. His ruminatations constitute the theoretical core of the book. |
| Synopsis: |
The Miner is the most daringly experimental and least well known novel of the great Meiji novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916). Written in 1908, it is an absurdist novel about the indeterminate nature of human personality, which in many respects anticipates the work of Joyce and Beckett. Virtually devoid of plot and characterization, it unfolds entirely within the mind of the unnamed protagonist. Focusing on a young man whose love life has fallen to pieces, The Miner follows him as he flees from Tokyo, is picked up by a procurer of cheap labor for a copper mine, and then travels toward - and finally burrows into the depths of - the mine where he hopes to find oblivion. The young man reflects at length on nearly every thought and perception he experiences along the way, in terms of what the experience means to him at the time and in retrospect as a mature adult narrating the tale. The narrator concludes that there is no such thing as human character, and the many passages in which he ruminates on the nature of personality constitute the theoretical core of the book.The intellectual distancing carries over into the style of writing as well, and instead of a tragedy of alienation, we find here an absurdist - truly absurd and comical - allegory of descent into the psyche.< |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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