Название: I Am A Cat
Автор: Natsume Soseki
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 9781462901753
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
SŌSEKI NATSUME is the pen name of Kin’nosuke Natsume (1867-1916), the eighth and youngest son of a family of minor town-gentry. The family’s hereditary occupation as ward-chiefs in Tokyo under the Tokugawa shogunate disappeared with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, and thus they fell upon hard times, yet Sōseki received the compulsory modern education, both primary and at middle school level, which had been introduced in 1872.
In his mid-teens he switched to a private school for Chinese studies and, though upper-class tradition regarded literature as no more than a civilized diversion, he began to toy with the idea of adopting it СКАЧАТЬ