Natsume Soseki and translated by J. Cohn is a brand new translation of the most widely read Japanese novel, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school that is often compared to Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye in its enduring and wide-ranging popularity. This new translation captures better than ever before, the fluid, oral quality and feisty, sometimes brusque tone of the Japanese original.