Natsume Soseki’s representative works:
1. Novels: "I am a Cat", "Master/Brother", "Grass Pillow", "Nowaki", "Poppy Poppy" ”, “The Cheating Man”, “Sanshirō”, “Ever After”, “The Door”, “After the Other Shore”, “Pedestrian”, “Heart”, “Dao Grass”, “Light and Dark”.
2. Short stories and sketches: "Tower of London", "Phantom Shield", "The Sound of the Piano", "One Night", "Xing Dew", "The Inheritance of Interest", "Two Hundred" "Ten Days", "Wenniao", "Ten Nights of Dreams", "Eternal Day Sketch".
Writing characteristics:
Throughout Soseki's creation throughout his life, we will find that he has always been concerned about social reality, seriously thought about life, and strived to reflect life through various typical images, especially The life of an intellectual adheres to the realistic creative method.
His works are simple and humorous in style, ingenious and diverse in structure, vivid and touching in description, simple and delicate in language, and have reached a very high artistic level. Natsume Soseki's creative tendencies are complex, but his basic tendency is realism.
Extended information:
When he was writing, the climax of romanticism in the Japanese literary world had passed, and the naturalist school was in its prosperous stage and had the potential to monopolize everything. In addition, there are also schools such as aestheticism. However, Soseki's creations were unique in the literary world at that time. He refused to agree with the naturalists and was determined to follow the path he thought was right based on his own understanding of literature.
In response to the naturalist view that the reproduction of facts is literature, he advocated that literature should not be photos of real life, but must be "imitations" consciously fictitious, because only through fiction can it be produced "Reality" beyond "facts".
Therefore, his debut novel "I Am Cat" was attacked by the naturalists as soon as it came out and was criticized as vulgar and boring. Since then, his works have been constantly criticized by the naturalists.
Although Soseki is called the "Yuyu School" and the "Godan School" by some people, these names cannot accurately express the essence of his creation. At most, they can only express one aspect of his creation, and they are not main aspects.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Natsume Soseki