Poppy (natsume Soseki's Work Series)
by H
About This Novel
Natsume Soseki's unique and gorgeous work is a long masterpiece of haiku written in a series of beautiful words. It is a confrontation between modernity and classics, and the confrontation between glitz and simplicity. Blooming in silver, and fading in silver. This flower is poppy poppy. In Japan after the Meiji Restoration, amidst the tremendous social changes, the confrontation between tradition and modernity, morality and utilitarianism was extremely fierce. A group of young men and women each chose a different life: the poet Ono was born in poverty, and he was extremely vain and tried to completely change his life by marrying a rich girl; the philosophy graduate Kono was world-weary and pessimistic, and decided to leave the hypocritical family; the beautiful but arrogant rich girl Fujio hoped to get rid of her original engagement and find another good relationship... In the end, these young people met their unexpected but reasonable endings. In the last chapter of the novel, on the silver screen in the deceased Fujio's room, there is a poppy with verdigris stems and red and purple petals, which "blooms in silver and withers in silver", gorgeous but disillusioned. Natsume Soseki took this flower as his title and used it as a metaphor for people. People are "busy making trade-offs between this way of living and that way of living." They are satisfied with the comedy of existence full of frolic, noise, deception, contempt, and trampling, but ignore the great tragedy of life under the decline of morality.
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