by Natsume Soseki · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788413625126
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Published in 1906 and inspired by Natsume Soseki's own experience, 'Botchan' tells the adventures of a young man from Tokyo who is assigned as a teacher to a school on the island of Shikoku. Through humorous situations, the novel offers a critique of Japanese society, where traditional values are being replaced by personal success and greed. This edition of Alianza Editorial features the translation by Rumi Tani Moratalla.
Natsume Sōseki was a Japanese novelist, poet, and scholar. He is considered one of the greatest writers in modern Japanese history and is often called the first modern novelist of Japan. Sōseki's fiction explored themes of individualism, loneliness, and the conflict between traditional Japanese values and the rapid Westernization of the Meiji era. His major works include I Am a Cat (1905), Botchan (1906), Sanshirō (1908), Kokoro (1914), and his unfinished final novel Light and Dark (1916).
