Vol. 3June 2026
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A Talk

おはなし

夏目漱石 · Japanese

Invited to address the Tokyo Higher Technical School, a reluctant novelist contrasts engineering's pursuit of efficiency with literature's investment in the human.

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Invited to address the Tokyo Higher Technical School, a reluctant novelist contrasts engineering's pursuit of efficiency with literature's investment in the human. A lecture by Natsume Soseki.

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