The Miner

The Miner

By Natsume Sōseki

Pages

Rating

3.96

Year

1908

FictionClassicsAsiaJapanNovelsAsian Literature

Description

The Miner is the most daringly experimental and least well-known novel of the great Meiji writer Natsume Soseki. An absurdist tale about the indeterminate nature of human personality, written in 1908, it was in many ways a precursor to the work of Joyce and Beckett. The result is a novel that is both absurd and comical, and a true modernist classic.