Hailed by many critics as Natsume Soseki’s masterpiece, his final, unfinished novel Meian (1916; tr. Light and Darkness, 1971) was published posthumously. It is the story of a wife who suspects that her husband loves another woman, the husband who still yearns for the former lover, and the complexity of family and social bonds that surround their tangled web of relationships and emotions. Psychologically rich and subtle, the work was “completed” in 1990 by author Mizumura Minae.
See also WOMEN IN LITERATURE.
Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater. J. Scott Miller. 2009.