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Botchan

Soseki Natsume

Book Overview: 

Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival there is not very lucky: The pupils are bound to test his perseverance and cheerily comments every one of his perceived missteps. In the teacher's room, he soon finds himself in the middle of an intrigue between the jovial "Porcupine" and the fat "Hubbard Squash" on one side, and the effeminate "Red Shirt" and his follower "Clown" on the other. Will Botchan choose the right side in the end?

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I realised that the profession of teaching not quite so easy a calling as might have appeared. My teaching for the day was finished but I could not get away. I had to wait alone until three o'clock. I understood that at three o'clock the students of my classes would finish cleaning up the rooms and report to me, whereupon I would go over the rooms. Then I would run through the students' roll, and then be free to go home. Outrageous, indeed, to keep on chained to the school, staring at the empty space when he had nothing more to do, even though he was "bought" by a salary! Other fellow teachers, however, meekly submitted to the regulation, and believing it not well for me,—a new comer—to fuss about it, I stood it. On my way home, I appealed to Porcupine as to the absurdity of keeping me there till three o'clock regardless of my having nothing to do in the school. He said "Yes" and laughed. But he became serious and in an advisory manner told me not to make many . . . Read More

Community Reviews

”Now that I thought about it, though, I realized that most people actually encourage you to turn bad. They seem to think that if you don't, you'll never get anywhere in the world. And then on those rare occasions when they encounter somebody who's honest and pure-hearted, they look down on him and s

این کتاب اخیرا توسط نشر برج منتشر شده.
اثری جذاب و دوست داشتنی بود.
خیلی از خوندنش لذت بردم.
داستان این کتاب به زندگی پسری دردسر ساز و شرور می‌پردازد،پسری که قرار نیست اسمشو بدونیم و فقط به نام باچان (ارباب)لقبی که خدمتکار میانسال خونه‌اشون بهش داده.
ما از همون دوران نوجوانی همراهش می‌شویم تا روزی که به

No habia leido aun al autor, aunque tengo Kokoro pendiente, pero me decidi a empezar por este y la verdad que ha sido un acierto, es una historia muy facil de entender, sin palabras complejas, sin muchos tecnicismos y bastante cortita.
Es una historia de un joven de Tokio, al que destinan a la isla d

Japon edebiyatı ile ilk tanışma için uygun bir kitap olabilir. Oldukça basit ve kolay okunur-yormayan bir anlatımı var. İnsanları neden sevmediğinizi hatırlatması da artısı. :)

3,5/5

لا أدري إن كان هناك تأثير لسالينجر ولكن تلك الروح المتمردة وجدتها حاضرة بشكل كبير الروح الساخطة واللسان السليط في الرواية التي أسرت الشباب ومراهقي ذلك العصر شخصية هولدن في الحارس في حقل الشوفان كانت قريبة وهذا الأمر يتكرر في هذه الرواية لتكون بوتشان الرواية الأكثر شعبية في اليابان ، التمرد رمز للبطو

RESEÑA completa

PURA DIVERSIÓN.
Si no habéis leído nada de Soseki empezad por 'Botchan' y no os arrepentiréis.
Es una lectura ligera pero llena de chispa que satiriza la experiencia de un joven profesor dando clase en una pequeña ciudad de provincias.
Me lo he pasado genial. Super recomendado!!!
Ya van 3

A rough diamond in Japan

In every country, people treasure certain images of themselves, whether they are accurate or not. In general, among numerous peoples like the Chinese, Japanese, French, Russians, or English, there are so many personality types as to make such images totally stereotypical. In

Botchan is like Japan's Tom Sawyer. It is read by schoolchildren across the country and has been the subject of innumerable TV sketches and parodies ever since Soseki wrote it early in the 20th Century. It is a coming-of-age story ripe with sarcasm and very entertaining to read. There is also a comi

[Edited, pictures added 6/2/22]

This book from 1906, translated from the Japanese, is kind of a “Tom Brown at Oxford” set in Japan, and, in fact, the author did attend British schools, so maybe that’s where he got the idea for the book.

A young man from Tokyo finds a job as a math teacher in a boys’

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