The Three Cornered World by Natsume Sōseki
A wandering artist-narrator retreats from city life to a remote mountain village, where encounters with local inhabitants and a mysterious young woman prompt lyrical, often wry meditations on beauty, art, solitude, and the uneasy tensions between aesthetic ideals and everyday human needs; the book unfolds as a series of poetic observations and conversations that probe the artist’s role in a changing, modernizing world.
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- Published
- 1906
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 120-160
- Original Language
- Japanese
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- Alternate Titles
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- A Three-Cornered World
- Kusamakura
- 草枕
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