Ten Nights Dreaming: And the Cat's Grave

A murderer discovers his true nature from a talking infant, a samurai is frustrated in his attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories. The dream-like, open-ended tales by the father of Japanese modernist literature offer thought-provoking reflections on fear, death, and loneliness. Their settings range from the Meiji period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the era in which the tales were written, to the prehistoric Age of the Gods; the twelfth-century Kamakura period, in which the samurai class emerged; and the remote future.
A scholar of British literature, author Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) was also a composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. The stories of Ten Nights Dreaming, which were originally published as a newspaper serial, constitute milestones of Japanese fantasy. Like Sōseki's other writings, they have had a profound effect on readers, writers, and filmmakers. This edition features an expert new English translation by Matt Treyvaud, who has translated the story The Cat's Grave for this work as well.

Author: Natsume Soseki
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 09/16/2015
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780486797038
ISBN10: 0486797031
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | Fantasy | Historical

About the Author
Author Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was a scholar of British literature and a composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. His works have had a profound effect on subsequent Japanese writers, and from 1984 to 2004 his portrait appeared on the 1,000-yen note.

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