The Heredity of Taste

✍ Scribed by Natsume, Soseki

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Year: 2012;2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 339 KB
• Edition: Tuttle ed.
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780804836029

✦ Synopsis

Introduction -- The Heredity of Taste -- 1 -- 2 -- 3.;Written in eight days, in December 1905, and published in the January 1906 issue of the magazine Teikoku Bungaku (Imperial Literature), Shumi no iden (The Heredity of Taste) is Soseki Natsume's only anti-war work. Chronicling the mourning process of a narrator haunted by his friend's death, the story reveals Soseki's attitude to the atrocity of war, specifically to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, and to the personal tragedies and loss of individuality of young men like his hero Ko-san, and the sacrifices made by both the living and the dead. Although the first part of the.