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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
Sanshiro kể câu chuyện về chàng trai từ quê lên chốn thị thành để vào Đại học Tokyo, nước Nhật những năm đầu 1900s, buổi giao thời giữa truyền thống và văn minh phương tây hiện đại. Tình cờ làm sao mình đọc quyển này khi cũng tròn 10 năm vào đại học, cũng như nhân vật chính, vì thế chia sẻ rất nhiều và cảm giác rất bồi hồi, nhớ lại thời thanh xuân đã qua, những ngày 18 tuổi, xa quê hương lên thành phố với bao điều mới mẻ. Cũng như Sanshiro, mình ngày đó cũng loay hoay giữa mới và cũ, giữa những khác biệt của thôn quê và thị thành, và cũng tự chia cuộc đời thành 3 thế giới: chốn quê nhà, cuộc sống học thuật và cuối cùng là đời sống tuổi trẻ với những chuyện yêu đương.
Kết thúc buồn man mác, nhưng có lẽ tuổi trẻ là thế, có khi nào mà chẳng tiếc nuối một điều gì?
Có một review rất hay, mình trích lại câu nói giúp những gì mình muốn nói: “Độc giả, những người từng tham gia một chuyến tàu hỏa từ quê nhà lên thành phố học đại học sau khi tốt nghiệp cấp ba, ắt hẳn sẽ tìm thấy bóng dáng mình trong hành trình của nhân vật chính.”
Kết thúc buồn man mác, nhưng có lẽ tuổi trẻ là thế, có khi nào mà chẳng tiếc nuối một điều gì?
Có một review rất hay, mình trích lại câu nói giúp những gì mình muốn nói: “Độc giả, những người từng tham gia một chuyến tàu hỏa từ quê nhà lên thành phố học đại học sau khi tốt nghiệp cấp ba, ắt hẳn sẽ tìm thấy bóng dáng mình trong hành trình của nhân vật chính.”
reflective
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I was expecting this book to be much more old fashioned and harder to read than it actually was. I was pleasantly surprised at how modern its story was whilst still being an interesting incite into early 20th century Japan. Also had some very well-written female characters
Really different to 'The Miner', an enjoyable and surprisingly easy to read coming of age story.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Surprised at the richness of what's to offer: sensorial scenery, strong female characters, academic discussions. Props to Jay Rubin, for their outstanding translation and notes. Highly recommend the Penguin Classics copy, with Murakami's introduction.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"Sanshiro" didn't appeal to me as much as I'd expected - I'm a small fan of Natsume Soseki, so I naturally grabbed this volume the moment I saw it, expecting to devour it whole the moment I started it. It didn't really happen. Which doesn't make it bad.
In the first decade of the 20th century, Sanshiro, comes to the big city of Tokyo for the first time, in order to continue his studies. He's quiet and shy and doesn't know much about life, but he soon discovers new people and ideas at university, while you can feel his marriage being brewed up in the background by his mother, who really likes this girl he left back home and who keeps warning him to be careful about the treacherous people in the capital.
The atmosphere is interesting - this is a Japan in which trains are late and Sanshiro throws a lunch box out the window during his ride, in which Tokyo is built and rebuilt and things are still changing and nowhere near as clean, civilized and efficient as we've come to perceive it today. There's a university in which professors can be hard to understand, but in which all the book in the library seem to have been read and annotated by students before Sanshiro - and how much is Soseki poking fun at real life during his time and how much of it isn't is something left to people who do more research about this book than I.
It had subtlety - perhaps too much of it? I ended up googling to find out more about the meaning of "stray sheep", an idea which pops up a few times. And the characters had a few nice psychological touches - you could feel the clash between mentalities, the discrepancies between what one sets out to do and what one actually does instead.
It isn't precisely what I was hoping to read, but it was an interesting read nonetheless.
In the first decade of the 20th century, Sanshiro, comes to the big city of Tokyo for the first time, in order to continue his studies. He's quiet and shy and doesn't know much about life, but he soon discovers new people and ideas at university, while you can feel his marriage being brewed up in the background by his mother, who really likes this girl he left back home and who keeps warning him to be careful about the treacherous people in the capital.
The atmosphere is interesting - this is a Japan in which trains are late and Sanshiro throws a lunch box out the window during his ride, in which Tokyo is built and rebuilt and things are still changing and nowhere near as clean, civilized and efficient as we've come to perceive it today. There's a university in which professors can be hard to understand, but in which all the book in the library seem to have been read and annotated by students before Sanshiro - and how much is Soseki poking fun at real life during his time and how much of it isn't is something left to people who do more research about this book than I.
It had subtlety - perhaps too much of it? I ended up googling to find out more about the meaning of "stray sheep", an idea which pops up a few times. And the characters had a few nice psychological touches - you could feel the clash between mentalities, the discrepancies between what one sets out to do and what one actually does instead.
It isn't precisely what I was hoping to read, but it was an interesting read nonetheless.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a novel that is very emblematic of a period in Japanese literature, and like many works of the era and place, it contains some beautiful prose fantastically written scenes. I deeply related to the main character's lack of direction. I felt the same way in a semester of college when I was 18. However unfortunately, beyond that I didn't find the character development very compelling. And the other characters in the novel were not particularly charming or interesting to me.
medium-paced