My Life: Living, Loving, and Fighting (Volume 26) (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies)

Written in 1908, the novel depicts the twenty-three-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo, its women, and the cool, dark world of the university. One of Soseki's most loved works of fiction, the novel is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.Jay Rubin provides with his translation a short preface and an extended study of Sanshiro and its place among Soseki's works.