SPECIAL FEATURES “The Soseki Phenomenon”
The Soseki Phenomenon and Korea
2018 Volume 98 Pages 59-70
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2018 Volume 98 Pages 59-70
We are in the midst of a Soseki boom. I am not talking about Japan, where Soseki was born and died. On April 8, 2017, when the Spring Academic Conference of the Japanese Language and Literature Association of Korea was held at Myongji University in Seoul, the theme, which commemorated the 150th year of Soseki's birth, was “Natsume Soseki: A Journey of 150 Years, and Korea.” This interest in Soseki is not limited to experts engaged in work relating to Japan. A fourteen-volume collection, The Complete Novels of Natsume Soseki, translated into Korean, was issued by a South Korean publisher in 2016. In this paper, I focus on this complete collection of Soseki's novels, and examine the Soseki phenomenon under the various conditions surrounding current literature.
