Kokoro

Natsume Sōseki · 1914 CE · Novel · Japanese · Modernist

A student in late Meiji Tokyo attaches himself to an older man he calls Sensei, who lives on family money, visits a grave every month, and will not explain himself. When the student is called home to a dying father, a long letter arrives from Sensei carrying the story he has withheld. The private cost of the Meiji settlement, delivered by mail.

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