MY INDIVIDUALISM AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LITERATURE

Published here for the first time in English, these essays explore issues close to Sosekis heart: the philosophical and cultural significance of isolation, belonging and identity associated with rapid technological, industrial and cultural change. True to his self-conscious style, each essay includes individual biographical anecdotes, inviting their allegorical reading as stories about the fate of Japan. Together, the essays reveal Sosekis attempts to create a theory of literature that is characteristically Japanese.