Kokoro

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The novel sustains throughout its length something approaching poetry and it is rich in understanding and insight. -Anthony West <em>The New Yorker</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>KOKORO</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (the heart of things) explores emotions familiar to everyone-love and hate hope and despair companionship and loneliness.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sensei a man seen against the rich background of old-new Japan is outwardly successful; he has position wealth a charming wife. Deep in the heart of things he is harried with a profound sense of isolation whose cure lies only in faith madness or death. This book is the story of his long-hidden secret divulged to a young friend who is threatened with a similar dilemma. The genius of Soseki Japan's first great modern novelist lies in his ability to express universal emotions with the beautiful restraint of the Japanese spirit.</span></p>