How long does it take to read Kokoro?
Natsume Sōseki, Yoko Ogihara, Fernando Cordobés, Carlos Rubio lópez de la Llave, Nagi Yoshizaki, Makiko Itoh
Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki, Yoko Ogihara, Fernando Cordobés, Carlos Rubio lópez de la Llave, Nagi Yoshizaki, Makiko Itoh takes about 4 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1914. 272 pages, about 74,800 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 84 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he complete before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro--meaning "heart"-is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls "Sensei". Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student's struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century.
Subjects: Fiction, Japan, Social conditions, Roman japonais, Traductions anglaises, Fiction, short stories (single author)
