His philosophical insights on life are born of his own thoughtful personal reflections. Soseki’s prose is honest and unexaggerated, his writing easy and casual, as if he were leisurely sharing his life, past and present, in snippets to the reader. This volume, the essays of which were serialized in a newspaper, would be an equivalent to personal blog entries today.
The essays touch on a variety of topics, ranging from Soseki’s existential reflections on life and death, his childhood memories, and brief episodes from his life during the period of this collection’s writing. As a work of literary miscellany, it is a loose and eclectic collection of personal vignettes written by Natsume Soseki throughout a period not long before his passing. Inside My Glass Doors is the first of its kind that I’ve read. Book review originally published on Januin my Goodreads account.
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