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Ten Nights of Dreams
Natsume Soseki
Ten brief stories begin with 'I had such a dream' and open onto different times and landscapes.
A promise for a hundred years, a stone Buddha, and a blind boy connect through dream logic.
A free, uncanny sequence that invites one night at a time.
Why read it now
A few minutes before bed can gently unsettle the edges of the everyday.
Before reading
In these short pieces, late-Meiji Soseki experiments with time, art, and memory.
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