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• aik · Aug 3, 2010 · Recommends

  I enjoyed The Woman in the Dunes as well. Very well written, though it left me feeling a bit disturbed. Another great novel (also Japanese) is Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. It's not sci-fi and the plot isn't especially thick, however just like a lot of Japanese novels, the focus is on the character development, and it is done very very well.

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• xrd · Feb 14, 2024 · Recommends

  …break classic public domain books (in the original foreign language) into small chunks for study of the source language. An example passage is here (from one of the greatest works of Japanese literature, Kokoro by Natsume Soseki). https://community.public.do/t/kokoro-by-natsume-soseki-parag... If you click on any passage, you can see all the kanji and the translation of that passage in full. Each kanji is…

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• genjipress · Mar 29, 2020 · Recommends

  "Kokoro" by Soseki Natsume. (What is inside you matters above all things) "The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler. (There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in) "Dom Casmurro" by Machado de…

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• xrd · Jun 22, 2020 · Mentions

  …reading books in foreign languages, and then easily adding notes that are automatically translated, I would be interested in hearing from you. Here is a demo, one of the most famous Japanese books ever: Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki. https://public.do/kokoro-by-natsume-soseki/ You can select a word to capture it, it gets translated for you, and then you can build Anki cards to review your notes. It's still under…

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• anvandare · Mar 5, 2018 · Mentions

  "You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves." - Sōseki, Kokoro

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• jaylitt · Dec 24, 2015 · Mentions

  "Debt: The First 5000 Years" David Graeber "Kokoro" Natsume Soseki "The Politics of Dialogical Imagination" Hirano Katsuya "History and Repetition" Karatani Kojin "The Structure of World History" Karatani Kojin "Anti-Oedipus" Gilles Deleuze & Felix…

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• xrd · Mar 21, 2020 · Mentions

  …classics in Japanese, take notes on the words you don't know, get them automatically translated, and then automatically generate flashcards to help you remember those words. I've always wanted to read Kokoro from Natsume Soseki (perhaps the greatest Japanese novelist ever) in the original and this is helping me to get past the words I don't know. If anyone is interested in playing with it I would love a…

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• xrd · Dec 3, 2023 · Mentions

  …and my Japanese classmates made me well aware of that. I'm actually building a way to practice the correct stroke order while reading Japanese classics. For example, this passage from Natsume Soseki's Kokoro: https://community.public.do/t/kokoro-by-natsume-soseki-parag... If you click on the kanji section, you can click on any of the kanji and then a modal pops up with an animated kanji with correct stroke…

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