It was a time of major social changes, for instance disrupting the traditional “filial piety to the family”, an essential theme in And Then.
Soseki lived in “one of the most dramatic periods in Japanese history, the Meiji Restoration. In my review of Sanshiro, I highlighted the importance of the historical setting. It is in this trilogy ( Sanshiro And Then The Gate), “that we see the emergence of the mature novelist.” If Sanshiro is the story of a timid young man, frightened and paralyzed by the new world he is thrown in, And Then is “about troubled adulthood”, and The Gate about middle age. I read it both for the Japanese Literature Challenge, and for The Classics Club. After reading Sanshiro, I realized this was the first book of a trilogy, so now to the second book: And Then.
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