The Three-Cornered World (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Kinnosuke Natsume
- First Published: 1906
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: 1905
- Setting: The Japanese resort village of Nakoi
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Suicide, Twentieth century, Nature, Art or artists, Divorce, Japan or Japanese people, East and West
- Locales: Japan, Nakoi, Japan
Characters Discussed
The narrator, a well-educated connoisseur of both Asian and Western arts, literature, and philosophy. The narrator has fled the capital with its mundane distractions and involvements for a hiking trip to put himself in touch with nature and regain his artistic perspective. As he says, “an artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four- cornered world.” Because the artist lacks common sense, he can approach areas from which the average person shrinks in the worlds...
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