After reading Murakami’s Kafka On The Shore, I wanted to read more of the Japanese Literature. Somehow, I stumbled upon KOKORO by Natsume Soseki. Published in 1914, Kokoro is considered to be Natsume Soseki’s finest novel which is all told in the first person though there are two different viewpoints. One more thing for the observation is that throughout the book, not a single character has the proper name. On reading Murakami’s books including Kafka On The Shore, Hear The Wind Sing, Pinball 1973 and now Kokoro, I feel that it is an enigmatic characteristic that Japanese writers like to follow and they demand this substitution from their readers by giving them a sense of mysteriousness. Even though it doesn’t matter to a reader for what a […]