Inside My Glass Doors Natsume Soseki

Written a year before the author s death the stories are filled with flashbacks to soseki s youth his classmates his family and his old neighbourhood as well as episodes from the more recent past.

Inside my glass doors natsume soseki.

In thirty nine short essays natsume presents a variety of reminiscences from recent encounters with readers and fans to episodes and memories from long ago. As a work of literary miscellany it is a loose and eclectic collection of personal vignettes written by natsume soseki throughout a period not long before his passing. Inside my glass doors is an odd sort of selection of scenes from a life.

Inside my glass doors is the first of its kind that i ve read. Inside my glass doors is a collection of 39 non fiction autobiographical pieces serialized in the last year of his life. Inside my glass doors is a collection of 39 non fiction autobiographical pieces serialized in the last year of his life. Having now read all of natsume soseki s novels i m now reading everything else available from my new favorite writer.

Read inside my glass doors by soseki natsume online on bookmate originally published as garusudo no uchi in daily serialization in the asahi newspaper in 1915 before appearing in book form this. Inside my glass doors is the first of its kind that i ve read. There are his characteristic ruminations about his physical well being and from the quiet spaces inside the glass doors of his study he also calmly observes the clamorous state of the world outside. Description inside my glass doors offers the collected observations and ruminations of a great author at the height of his powers.

One recognizes so many vignettes herein that served as source material for moments throughout the novels and it s simultaneously heartbreaking and enlightening to realize how much of the novels spring directly from soseki s life experience.