Laid up with a cold in his study, Sōseki looks out through his glass doors and writes short newspaper sketches of the visitors, dogs, cats and childhood memories that drift into his narrow world. A quiet, wry run of vignettes about a strange young woman's confession, importunate strangers, and the old Edo neighbourhood of his boyhood, written under the shadow of illness and death.
Books mentioned in Inside My Glass Doors (2)
Iliad by Homer: “I gave the children's new friend the grand name of Hector. It was the name of the greatest Trojan warrior in the Iliad, who was struck down by Achilles when Troy and Greece went to war. [auto-translated]”
First Principles by Herbert Spencer: “He was bound for the science course from the start, yet he liked to leaf through books of philosophy. I still remember that he once lent me a book called Spencer's First Principles. [auto-translated]”