Author Profile: After graduating from the Faculty of Sociology at Hitotsubashi University, the author worked at Kenkyusha (a publishing company) while also editing the literary magazines "Tenkei" and "Mumyoki" with Ichiro Murakami (literary critic), and began his critical activities. Later, he served as a professor in the Faculty of Letters at Toyo University. After retiring from Toyo University, he received the title of Professor Emeritus and served as a part-time researcher at Toyo University. He also served as a lecturer at Tama Art University and Otsuma Women's University, and as a director of the Museum of Modern Japanese Literature. He was close friends with other literary critics such as Koichi Isoda, Takeo Okuno, Shoichi Saeki, Shun Akiyama, Takao Aiba, and Hideo Takahashi. Awards: 1979: The Taiko Hirabayashi Literary Award for "Dostoevsky" 1984: The Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts for "Yojuro Yasuda" 1992: The Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for "Showa Spiritual History" 1995: The Ito Sei Literary Award for "Sei Ito" 1999: Received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon 2005: Received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Medium Neck Ribbon Work: "Soseki, who was the most intense being in opposition to the times? This is the author's representative work, which carves out the trajectory of his earnest life, symbolizing the glory and misery of modern Japan, and strikes at today's intellectual wasteland. This is the long-awaited definitive edition, with 300 new pages added." This is Hideaki Okatani's "Natsume Soseki Ron" published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, first edition in April 1972, with a box. The box has some yellowing, but the main body has no stains, writing, or library stamps. Please consider purchasing this item, understanding that it is a 52-year-old used book.