Botchan is a novel written in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan.
A Tokyoite known only as Botchan thinks teaching a bunch of high-school yokels in the sticks will be simple-after all, they're essentially living in yesteryear.
But our narrator soon learns that he is surrounded by schemers and tricksters and that the teaching job that should have been a walk in the park is more like a walk off a plank. Can he survive and make it back to civilization on Moral Fibre alone?
Syllabus
Nouns Abstract, concrete, animate, inanimate, collective, common, proper nouns, countable, uncountable. Pronouns Interrogative who, what; Indefinite someone, something,everything, anything, nothing. Quantifiers All, a lot of, some any, more. Adjectives Demonstrative, possessive, qualifying. Prepositions Place Position and Direction , Time. Verbs Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative, Infinitives, regular and common irregular verbs, Present Simple, Present Continuous with present meaning, Simple past, Imperative. Modal verbs can, have to, must.
SOSEKI NATSUME
Natsume Soseki fue un escritor japonés nacido en Tokio en 1867 y fallecido en 1916. Considerado el padre de la literatura japonesa moderna, combinó influencias occidentales con la tradición japonesa. Estudió literatura inglesa en la Universidad de Tokio y vivió tres años en Londres, experiencia que marcó su obra. Publicó novelas como Soy un gato, Botchan y Kokoro, donde exploró la psicología humana, la soledad y los cambios sociales del Japón Meiji. Su estilo mezcla sátira, introspección y crítica social. Fue profesor universitario y colaborador del diario Asahi Shimbun. Su legado sigue vigente en la cultura japonesa.
