On Gece Rüyası

by Natsume Sōseki, Yahya Bulat (Translator)

"Gittikçe daha da sıkılıyordum. Nihayetinde canımı almaya karar verdim. Bir akşam, etrafta kimsenin olmadığı bir vakit, kararlılıkla denize daldım. Ancak ayağımın güverteden ayrıldığı ve gemiyle bağlantım koptuğu an, hemen canımın kıymetini fark ettim. Kalbimin derinliklerinden keşke vazgeçseydim, diye düşündüm. Lakin çok geçti.”



Rüyalar âleminin derin karanlığına doğru yapılan fantastik bir yolculuk… On Gece Rüyası’ndaki her bir öykü kısa ama öz bir şekilde kendi bağımsızlığını ilan eder. Sayfaları çevirdikçe bir samurayın kılıcının parıltısından bir babanın günahının altında ezilişine, bir kadının ölüme yakın yakarışlarından bir annenin çaresizce yaşama ve umuda tutunma çabasına kadar insanı derinden etkileyen, efsunlu bir dünyaya adım atıyoruz.



Çağdaş Japon edebiyatına yön veren ve pek çok yazarı etkileyen Natsume Sōseki, bu eserinde kaleme aldığı on farklı öyküyü, büyülü atmosfer kurgusuyla birbirine sımsıkı bağlayarak okuruna sunuyor. Yazarın bir sihirbaz gibi parmaklarında oynattığı bu düşsel evren, gerçeklik algısını altüst ederken rüyanın ağırlığı, anlatımın sadeliğiyle âdeta uçucu bir hâl alıyor.

Genres: Japan, Short Stories, Japanese Literature, Fiction, Classics, Magical Realism, Fantasy

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1809

About the author

Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note. In Japan, he is often considered the greatest writer in modern Japanese history. He has had a profound effect on almost all important Japanese writers since.

Reviews

[Flo · Rating 4 out of 5]

The First Night

'The sun rises. And the sun sets. And the sun rises and sets... When the red sun rises in the east and sets in the west, then I will... Will you wait for me?'

The Second Night

'I cannot reach the state of nothingness.' Whenever I felt I was about to reach it, the pain seemed to become more intense, bringing me back. I felt anger. I felt regret. I felt deep chagrin at my failing attempt. Tears flowed from my eyes... But I remained sitting patiently. I had to endure this gut-rending sorrow.

The Third Night

I began to feel afraid of him even though he was my son.

The Fourth Night

The old man still made his way straight through the river, singing.
'The river will deepen.
The day will darken.
The world will straighten its path.'

The Fifth Night

The captain scrutinized my face in the firelight and asked me if I would live or die. It was the custom in those days to ask a captive that question. To answer that one would live meant submission; that one would die meant no surrender at any cost. I answered shortly.

The Sixth Night

At last I had to accept the fact that the Niō does not reside in the wood of the Meiji period. I also learned the reason why Ukei is alive today.

The Seventh Night

One night when I was alone on deck watching he stars, a foreigner came up and asked me if I knew any astronomy. Here I was almost ready to kill myself as a non-entity. What did I need to know about astronomy? But I kept silent. The foreign man began to tell me about the seven stars over Taurus. He said that the stars and the sea were something God had created. Finally he asked me if I believed in God. I just kept silent, looking up at the sky.

The Eighth Night

As I crossed the threshold into a barber shop, I saw several people there, all dressed in white, who asked in chorus if they might help me.
I stood in the middle of the room, looking around. It was square. The windows on two sides were open and on the other two walls hung mirrors. I counted six mirrors.

The Ninth Night

The world has somehow become unsettled. A battle may break out at any moment. There is panic in the air...

The Tenth Night

Shōtarō, doffing his Panama hat, politely declined, again and again. The woman asked him whether he preferred to be licked by pigs, since he would not venture to jump off the precipice.

Tonight

This is the dream I dreamed.
I was sitting at a table for one. The room was covered in a timid, dim light. I began to notice a scent. One that lifted my spirits in ways I cannot explain. While I was trying to guess the origin of such irresistible scent, I saw a woman approaching me. She was wearing a white apron.
“Miss, where is this exquisite aroma coming from?,” I gently asked.
“Over there,” she answered, pointing at my right. I could not discern a thing.
“What is it?,” I asked, almost whispering.
“What do you think it is?”
“I believe it is the scent of hope,” I replied, as I felt my soul absorbing all the poetry of the room. All the history of my homeland.
The woman got closer to me, stared at me for a while and then said:
"It is the scent of lemon pie. You are at my coffee shop. You read two books, had three lattes and two pieces of lemon pie. I want to close my shop and go home. Are you ever going to leave?"


Dec 10, 15
* Also on my blog.

[Negar Afsharmanesh · Rating 5 out of 5]

وایی اول از همه بگم که کتاب خیلی عجیب غریب بود ولی در عین حال خیلی دوست داشتنی. تا حالا توی این چند سال به جزء مسخ کافکا همین داستان های عجیب غریبی نخونده بودم،نویسنده اومده ۱۰ تا از خواب هایی که دیده که به هم پیوسته بودن رو توی کتاب آورده که خیلی تکان دهنده و سورئال و عجیب غریبن باید خیلی دقت کنی بعضی جاها و با تمرکز بالا بخونی تا بفهمی آخر چی شد ولی خیلی جالب بود من از سبک سورئال جادویی و عجیب غریب خوشم میاد.

[E. G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Translator's Note
Foreword, by Michael Emmerich
Introduction, by Susan Napier

--Ten Nights Dreaming
--The Cat's Grave

[Cecilia Casiana Ivanov · Rating 5 out of 5]

O lectură scurtă, dar cu multă atmosferă. „Zece nopți cu vise” adună zece texte onirice, fiecare cu o energie diferită, unele melancolice, altele ciudate, chiar neliniștitoare. Nu e genul de carte care îți oferă răspunsuri sau o poveste clasică, ci mai degrabă te provoacă să simți și să reflectezi. Unele vise mi s-au părut mai reușite decât altele, dar în ansamblu mi-a plăcut tocmai libertatea și ambiguitatea ei.

[Katie Lumsden · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting little collection. I especially enjoyed reading Our Cat's Grave.

[Ratko · Rating 3 out of 5]

Као што и наслов ове кратке књиге каже - описано је десет снова, прилично чудњикавих, типично јапанских.
У поговору се детаљно објашњава и симболика, што донекле баца другу светлост на приче, али ја сам ипак више за реалност.

[J.M. Hushour · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dreams is a weird little collection by Natsume, which comes across as very un-Natsume for its almost troubling, opaque surrealism. It's a series of ten, very terse vignettes he wrote in 1908 for a newspaper, which focus on, supposedly, dreams he had.
Like everything he wrote, they are well-crafted, but stranger than usual. I'd even go so far to place these in the field of some kind of early, proto-surrealism. They range from the outright bizarre (old guy tries to turn a rope into a snake, then commits suicide) to the profoundly unsettling (blind baby on wanderer's back leads wanderer to site of murder wanderer committed), so this might be a good time of year to check these out.

[Ali Book World · Rating 3 out of 5]

کتابی عجیب و غریب با چاشنی سورئال بود.
ده تا از رویاهایی که نویسنده (سوسه کی) در خواب دیده و اونها رو به قلم آورده.
عجیب بودن، گاهی بی سر و ته اما عجیب و هر از گاهی دلهره آور...
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این کتاب بعد از کتاب "باچان" دومی اثری بود که از ناتسومه سوسه کی خوندم.

[Hulyacln · Rating 4 out of 5]

‘Batıya giden güneşin
Varıp varacağı yer doğu mu?
Söyleyin bana bu doğru mu?
Doğudan yükselen güneşin
Sılası batıya mı düşer?’
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On Gece Düşleri şunlardan oluşuyor:
*Soseki’nin 1908 yılında Asahi gazetesinde tefrika edilen 10 düş/öyküsü  
*1911’de yine aynı gazetede yayımlanan öyküsü Tuhaf Bir Ses
Peki bu öyküler ve düşler neleri anlatıyor? Aslında temelde tek bir şeyi: Kopup gidememeyi.
Hastalığı ile boğulan Soseki’nin hayattan kopamamasını, Batı denilen kültüre-değişime kollarını açan Japonya’nın köklerinden kopup gitmemesi gerektiğini.
Soseki ‘bir düş görüyor’ ve anlatıyor, eski’nin güzelliklerini, zenginliklerini, zamanın da unutmayan bir yanının olduğunu ve bu yanının çok da acımasızlaşabileceğini.
Yine çabucak akıyor cümleleri. Soseki okumak benim için her daim keyifli bir keşif. Hem onun ülkesine hem onun yaşadıklarına dair.
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Zeynep Gençer Baloğlu’nun özenli çevirisi ve Murat Yıldırım’ın pek sevdiğim kapak tasarımıyla (Öyküler arasında paylaşılan çizimlerin de çok ince düşünüldüğünü söylemeden geçemeyeceğim) –

[Larnacouer de SH · Rating 4 out of 5]

Diyelim ki Soseki hayranı olduğum için pek objektif bakamıyorum ama hayır, ben aynı zamanda öykü sevmeyen bir okurum? Bu durumu eşitliyor. Soseki’nin kesinlikle en sevdiğim yanlarından birisi bu bu arada. Öykü sevmeyen okurları bile yola getirebilecek bir yazar olması.

Minimalist tarzını kısacık öykülerinde bile gösterebiliyor olması nasıl güzel. Karanlık kitaplarında bile sevimli. Hikayeleri sanat eserleriyle desteklemek ayrıca çok özel bir fikir. Beğendim ben.
Yahu dedim ya hayranı olduğum için böyle konuşmuyorum diye! Aa.

[Anima · Rating 5 out of 5]

Introduction by Susan Napier, April 2015
“Reading the Ten Nights Dreaming we gain access to the many-layered mind and imagination of Soseki, one of modern Japan’s greatest- and most anguished-writers...
His life contained a number of traumatic events, beginning in his infancy. Soseki was born in 1867 to aged parents who, embarrassed to have a child at an advanced age, farmed him out to another couple. When he later returned to his parents, they pretended for a while that they were his grandparents, and he only learned the truth through a late-night whisper from a kindly maid. Fortunately for Soseki, he escaped his unhappy household though his brilliance as a student, first mastering Chinese and then going on to become one of a handful of Japanese students to become truly literate in English literature.
Soseki’s success in English, however, led to one of the most traumatic periods in his life, a two-year stint in London arranged by the Japanese government. Although he arrived boasting that he would out-master the English in their own language, he soon realized that his spoken English would never achieve fluency. As all his biographers chronicles, these two years were the most miserable in Soseki’s life. By his own account he lived “like a stray dog among wolves”, lonely and fearful, ashamed of his own failure and resentful of English. The dream of “The Seventh Night”, with its vision of an alienated Japanese man on a ship full of Westerns steadily moving towards the setting sun, undoubtedly express the disturbing, even despairing, emotions that Soseki felt towards his own encounter with the West.
But it is also true that that his time in England provided Soseki with some of his most memorable and beautiful material for his early fantastic literature. Visits to the Tower of London not only gave him the inspiration to write the ghostly tale The Tower of London, but also may have inspired the themes of claustrophobia or outright entrapment evident in the dreams of the second, fifth, and tenth nights. “Tower” also deals with the inescapable power of a dark past that still shadows the present, a theme that appears as the climax of the dream of “The Third Night”, widely acknowledged to be the most gripping and haunting of all the dreams.....
...the image of a pure and dying woman etched in the “The first Night” may have larger cultural references as well suggesting a general need among modernizing nations for an image of organic purity removed, at least momentarily, from the taint of industrialization. Across cultures this image is often embodied in the vision of a dying woman, and it is perhaps not surprising that Soseki return to this image in his later realistic novel And Then, and in his last, unfinished novel, Light and Dark.”

[WrittenbySahra · Rating 3 out of 5]

دیدین یه وقتهایی اسم یه نویسنده رو انقدر کنار کلمه مورد علاقتون می‌بینین که حک می‌شه توی ناخودآگاهتون؟ ناتسومه سوسه‌کی برای من از همون نویسنده‌ها بود که یه مدت خیلی طولانی بخاطر کتابش به اسم : ما *گربه* هستیم توی ذهنم ثبت شده بود. روزی که ده شب رویا رو خریدم، اون جلد زیبای کاملا ژاپنیش قلبم رو لمس کرده بود. قرمز جیگر زلیخونی توی پس زمینه و کیمونو و چتر کاغذی.
راستش من راجع به نویسنده و زندگیش نمیدونستم. دانشم محدود بود به اطلاعات پشت جلد و وقتی متوجه شدم که ده شب رویا توی سال 1908 به نگارش در اومده همزمان هم ترسیدم هم شگفت زده شدم. ترسیدم چون فکر نمی‌کردم نویسنده‌اش سالهاست که دیگه روی کره زمین نفس نمی‌کشه و شگفت زده شدم چون کتابی خونده بودم که تقریبا مال یک قرن پیش به حساب میاد( همیشه کتابهای قدیمی منو حیرت زده می‌کنن. که چطور این نخ ارتباط از بین فاصله های زمانی پوسیده نمی‌شه و میتونه صد یا دویست سال بعد هم، همچنان به دست خواننده‌اش برسه).
ده شب رویا، روایت ده شب رویاست! از شب اول تا دهم هرکدوم از داستانها فضای خاص خودشون رو دارن. اما ویژگی مشترک همشون تیرگی فضا و ارتباط بین و مرگ زندگیه. فکر کنم اگه قرار بود من اسم این کتاب رو انتخاب کنم "ده شب کابوس" عنوان مورد علاقه‌ام می‌شد. موقع خوندنش حس می‌کردم یه توانایی جدید مثلا شبیه باز شدن چشم سوم دارم. برخلاف کتابهای دیگه، توی این یکی نه نوشتم و نه هایلایت کردم. فقط خوندم و حس کردم یه معنای جدید از هرکدوم از این داستانها دریافت می‌کنم که شاید بقیه دریافتش نکنن.
داستانهای شب سوم و هفتم تنم رو لرزوندن. موقع خوندن این دوتا، عمیقا احساس کردم که چشم سومم باز شده.
نثر رو هم دوست داشتم. مدل روایتش جوری بود که آروم و با مکثهای بیشمار دلنشینی میخوندمش. در عین تناقض پیوستگی جملات و مکثی که نمیدونم چطور توضیحش بدم، میخوندمش و انگار که بین موج های آرومی بدنم شناور باشه. آره، حسش این شکلی بود و دوسش داشتم.

[Ramona Boldizsar · Rating 4 out of 5]

mai multe aici: https://ramonaboldizsar.substack.com/...

Îl citesc pentru prima oară în română pe Natsume Soseki. Am citit câteva romane de-ale sale traduse în engleză și e un autor care-mi place mult și care m-a introdus frumos în literatura japoneză. Aici avem o colecție de zece povestiri (foarte scurte) care, așa cum spune traducătoarea, „sunt scrise într-un stil evaziv, cultivând ambiguitatea, și sunt plasate la granița dintre fantastic și enigmatic”. Mi se pare că fiecare poveste e și un exercițiu stilistic și asta m-a cucerit într-un anumit fel. Sunt scrise simplist cu câteva artificii de limbaj specifice și perioadei și limbii japoneze (și bănuiesc că unele fraze își pierd poate din flerul poetic în traducere, cum se întâmplă cu orice limbă). Dar mi-a plăcut misterul țesut în jurul lor, tocmai această ambiguitate/evazivitate și elementul neașteptat adesea servit la final, care a închis cel mai adesea povestirile. Probabil că preferata mea este cea de-a treia povestire. Nu cred că e neapărat cea mai bună carte cu care să începi lectura lui Natsume Soseki, aș începe mai degrabă cu Kokoro (care e probabil cea mai bună carte a sa, cel puțin din ce-am citit eu) și pe care o găsiți acum și în română (tot la Alice Books). Odată ce ești familiarizat cu autorul, cred că vei găsi foarte frumoase povestirile din cartea asta.

Și volumul cred că merge mână-n mână cu Piatra de foc și alte povestiri de Kenjy Miyazawa. Ambele apărute la editura Alice Books. Traduse de Raluca Nicolae.

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ostensibly, this is a book of ten dreams -- but what dreams! The life of author Natsume Soseki pretty much spanned the years of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, a period in which much of the traditional Japanese culture was subject to rapid change.

Ten Nights Dreaming and The Cat's Grave is a delightful book with short dreams that will haunt you. In one of them (the seventh), the narrator is on a ship with foreigners headed West. But he becomes disoriented and jumps ship in the middle of the ocean. In real life, Natsume sailed to England where he spent two years studying English literature and trying to cope with a radically different culture.

Although Natsume dies over a century ago, I think he still speaks to us today. This is the third of his books I have read (the others were The Gate and Botchan); and I can see myself returning to him again.

[belisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

çok şey beklemezseniz metinler fena değil... çok daha kötü rüya anlatımları okuduğum olmuştu...
ilk öykü güzeldi...

[shizuku]

ده شب پریشانی،در مورد ده شب خواب های نویسنده هست،برای من قلم نویسنده و اون حس و حال ژاپنی خواب ها ،سورئال بودن و عجیب غریب بودن خیلی دوست داشتنی بود،درسته دوست داشتم اینها توی قالب یک قصه باشه،اما اینکه وارد فضای خواب یک نفر بشی اون هم خواب های عجیب و غریب ،اتفاق های باورنکردنی خیلی برام جالب بود،من کلا ادبیات ژاپن رو خیلی دوست دارم و این کارم خیلی خاص بود اما فکر نمیکنم همه ازش خوششون بیاد⁦
ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ⁩

[Vishy · Rating 5 out of 5]

'Ten Nights Dreaming (and The Cat's Grave)' is my first Natsume Sōseki book and I was so excited to read it. This book has ten stories, each of which is around three to four pages long. Each of the stories is a dream recounted by the narrator, and so there are ten dreams. Most of these dreams have a fantasy element to them. There is also a eleventh story 'The Cat's Grave' which is a standalone story and different from the other ten. It is about a cat and it is sad and heartbreaking.

I liked all the dream stories. But my favourites were the first, third and the sixth. The first is a beautiful, poignant love story with a beautiful ending. The third one is about a father and his blind child whom he is carrying on his back and walking into a forest. That blind child – he is extraordinary, he is cool. You will know why when you read the story. The sixth story is about a famous sculptor. It has this legendary conversation :

Narrator : "Amazing that he can just throw the chisel around like that and still get the eyebrows and noses to come out the way he wants."

Young man : "Oh, it isn't the chisel that makes those eyebrows and noses. Those exact eyebrows and noses are buried in the wood, and he just uses the hammer and chisel to dig them out. It is just like digging a rock out of the ground – there's no way to get it wrong."

I have read this thought in so many places. It was so nice to read the original version in Natsume Sōseki's story.

I loved 'Ten Nights Dreaming'. It is beautiful, dreamy, fascinating. And look at that cover? Isn't that exquisitely beautiful? Like a classic Japanese painting? I can't stop looking at it! The book has a beautiful foreword by Michael Emmerich, which is such a pleasure to read.

I can't wait to read more Natsume Sōseki stories. I should do a Natsume Sōseki month later this year and read all his works together.

Have you read 'Ten Nights Dreaming'? What do you think about it?

[Sara Bakhshiani · Rating 2 out of 5]

نمیدونم چرا بعد از خوندن داستان های جن و پری از نشر چشمه
و حال نکردن باهاشون دوباره این کتاب و سفارش دادم و فکر کردم چیز جالبی برای ارائه دادن داره!
تا اینجا واقعا از انتخاب کتاب هام توی این مدت ناراضی ام.
تنها نکته مثبت این کتاب این بود که یه سری مفهوم هایی که برای ما غیرقابل تصوره رو تصویرشو گذاشته بود.
احساس میکنم این کتاب و باید توی حالتی خوند که سوبر نباشی
وگرنه خیلی چیزا میشه فهمید ازش
i dont know.

[Anna Negrila · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dacă nu știți ce să faceți cu doua ore din viata voastra, le puteti acorda acestei cărți. Se citește super ușor, iar temele abordate sunt interesante, poveștile având la baza antiteze magice si un strop din viata personala a autorului.

[Ligia Moisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: 3,5⭐

"Zece nopți cu vise" e exact cartea potrivită pe care să o ai pe noptieră și din care să furi câte un vis în fiecare seară înainte de culcare.

Exact așa se simte cartea, ca niște vise. Te face să simți multe deși majoritatea întâmplărilor sunt descrise ambiguu și autorul îți lasă loc ție ca cititor de interpretări.

Avem teme multiple precum: dragostea, ura, trădarea, viața, moartea, iluzia, creația, jocul percepției, paradoxul, credința sau ispita.

Scriitorul se joacă cu antitezele în povestirile acestea și se simte faptul că opera lui este influențată de trauma pe care a trăit-o fiind un copil nedorit, născut la bătrânețe și mai apoi abandonat.

Asemeni lui Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Natsume Sōseki simte nevoia să ascundă critica și/ sau îngrijorarea pe care o simte legată de occidentalizarea Japoniei. Tot asemeni lui Jun'ichiro, scriitorul creează imagini puternice jucânduse cu umbrele și luminile. Încă odată m-au făcut să realizez cât de mult îmi plac micile detalii din diverse culturi.

O experiență tare rapidă și plăcută a fost cartea asta și sincer vă recomand să o citiți seara înainte de culcare fix când sunteți somnoroși și pregătiți să treceți linia fină dintre realitate și vis.

[Nehirin~ · Rating 5 out of 5]

First, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Night dreams are really good, but my favourites are First and Ninth Night dreams. It's marvellous story. And Cat's Grave is nice story too.
I really like Natsume Sôseki's style, he's great story teller.

[Miroslav Maričić · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Suncu što plovi ka zapadu,
Počinak je na istoku.
Istina li je to?
Suncu što rađa se na Istoku,
Kolevka je na Zapadu,
Istina li je i to?
Mi živimo na valima,
Na kormilu mi snevamo,
Dok plovimo, plovimo."

Poput svakog susreta sa nepoznatim kulturama, mitologijama i kontekstima, nerazumevanje je ono prvo što ispuzi sa stranica teksta. Srećom ova knjiga ima izuzetno lep pogovor koji prezentuje Sosekija kao autora sa njegovim osobenostima, ali i približava simboliku skrivenu u snovima optočenim pričama. Tako da sam ovu samo tekstom malenu knjigu pročitao opet nakon pogovora i tek onda istinski uživao u njoj.
Soseki predstavlja jednog od začetnika japanske savremene književnosti i to onog koji je lepotu video i u tradicionalnom feudalnom Japanu, ali i u uplivu zapadnjačke kulture u taj isti tradicijom obojeni Japan. Na taj način je i postavio priče, odnosno snove, u ovoj knjizi. Period Edo, ili period ratnika i tradicije, ima svoje priče, period Meiđi, ili period modernizacije, takođe ima svoje priče, a susret dva perioda koji se opisuje na imaginaran način takođe ima svoje snove. Karakteri likova iz različitih perioda su drugačiji, tradicionalisti su jaki i snažni karakteri dok su modernisti kolebljivi i bez jasnog cilja za svoje delovanje, ali jedni bez drugih ne mogu. Priče su svedene i bez detaljnih opisa prirode ili likova i često uključuju budističke sveštenike, hramove, zen mitologiju, samuraje i gejše kao nosioce simbolike, ali i savremene šešire i savremena prevozna sredstva u vidu bicikla, voza i broda. Ljubav i smrt u svom lirskom vezivanju predstavljaju osnovno pletivo i lajtmotiv svih deset snova. Sedma priča predstavlja srž ove zbirke i u njoj se susreću na prekookeanskom brodu Istok i Zapad, ali na moru negde gde između dve kulture, dva shvatanja sveta i dve mitologije. Tuga koju izaziva navikavanje na ono što je drugačije, prikazana je kroz lik žene u haljini koja plače i koja može biti Japanka nenaviknuta na život bez kimona, ili Evropljanka koja na brodu među istočnjacima ne nalazi nikoga svog. Glavni junak, dok gleda ženu koja plače i dvoje zaljubljenih koji plešu, oseća ništavilo i strah od novog nadolazećeg vremena i odlučuje se na samoubistvo. U dugom letu dolazi do katarzične spoznaje da modernizacija ne mora nužno biti kraj tradicije i da dubine mora nisu rešenje, ali kao i za mnoge životne greške nekada je jednostavno kasno.
Prevozna sredstva koja nam omogućavaju da brz prelazak velikih rastojanja, simbolički donose tugu, samoću i prazninu, što danas dobija i punu simboliku kada se informacija svetom prenosi trenutnu i kada imamo utisak da dan traje kreće, sve je brže i lakše, ali su ljudi sve nestabilniji, otuđeniji i odvojeni od kuće a to po Sosekiju može biti jedino pupak.
Svedeni snovi pretočeni u priče nose jaku simboličku poruku i upoznaju nas sa japanskom kulturom na, valjda jedini mogući način, zen način.

[Nick G · Rating 2 out of 5]

Intriguing, but not as much as I was looking for. Maybe I missed something - I hope I missed something - but I'm not sure.

I was so excited to find this book, couldn't wait for it to arrive from Amazon. I'm facinated by dreams. I feel dreams are one of the still-untapped frontiers of the human experience, and I love to incorporate vivid dreams into my own writing. I couldn't wait to see Soskei's approach, see what sort of creation resulted from dreaming and writing by him. I mean, I read he was a major influence on many Japanese writers, including Murakami, and most of the reviews made this book sound amazing.

But for me, it falls flat. Mostly, it feels lost in translation. I'm sure that much more is there when read in Japanese, but in this version the sentences are minimalistic in a bad way. Details are conveyed with about as much enthusiam and depth as a pamphlet about flossing that my dentist always has in stock. A lot of these stories are very cool based on the strangeness of the details alone, but that is all you get. I wanted so much more. Of course, meanings can be speculated, but no more concretely than when hearing about someone else's strange dream then having them ask "what does it mean?". You can create all the connections and 'deeper meaning' you want, but nothing is certain.

That is what the book is, I believe. Soseki had a dream, then wrote it down. Interesting of course; he had facinating dreams and was outright about letting us know (most of the stories start out with the phrase 'This is the dream I dreamed'), but I thought perhaps there was more, that I had missed some of the depth. I immediately jumped on Google to search for analysis of this book, but there isn't much. I did find this quote though, from a forum posting: "One scholar, analyzing the components of the dreams, concluded that Soseki had actually dreamed them."

In the end, I'm pissed that I paid $15 for this, maybe 30 pages, of actual writing. The rest is a summary of Soseki's life in a format fit for the back of a cereal box, that and about 40 pages of the defintions for Japanese terms used in the works. Oh, and almost [completely] forgot, each story has a black and white picture or two of the most generic image of something "Japanese" from the story (example of a hair style, straw sandals, a paper lamp, etc.), that left me feeling like the expected reader was a second grader discussing Japan one day in Social Studies. Yep, that's it. This book treated me like I was a second grader studying Soseki for a day, prepared with top of the line technology available in 1983 (although this version was actually published in 2000).

[Kaveh Rezaie · Rating 3 out of 5]

فکر می‌کنم اولین کتاب از ادبیات ژاپن بود که برایم حال و هوای فرهنگ سنتی آنجا را داشت. کتاب مجموعه‌ای از ده داستان کوتاه یا رؤیاست که بعضی از آن‌ها پر رمز و راز است. انتهای کتاب یادداشت‌های بسیار خوبی برای هر داستان هست که درباره واژه‌ها و اصطلاح‌های سنتی ژاپنی توضیح می‌دهد. در متن داستان‌ها هم گاها عکس‌هایی هست تا یک واژه را نشان دهد. مثلا «جیزو» که یک مجسمه کوچک و یا «شیمادا» و «ایچوگائشی» که مدل مو هستند.

[Pawarut Jongsirirag · Rating 4 out of 5]

..เนื้อเรื่องเเบ่งเป็น 2 ส่วนคือ ส่วนฝัน 10 ราตรี กับส่วนหลังคือเรื่องนกกระจอกชวา ที่เหมือนเป็นบันทึกการเลี้ยงนกของโชเซกิ ตามที่ลูกศิษย์คะยั้นคะยอให้เลี้ยง

..ส่วนฝันนั้น ทั้ง 10 เรื่อง เป็นเหมือนการเล่าความฝันจึงไม่มีเเก่นเรื่องที่ชัดเจน เเต่เเม้จะบอกว่าเป็นความฝันเเต่สำเนียงในการเล่าทำให้เรารู้สึกว่ามันคือเรื่องจริงมากกว่า เมื่ออ่านจบครบ 10 ราตรี จะเกิดคำถามว่าตัวเนื้อเรื่องต้องการสื่ออะไรออกมา เพราะมันไม่มีเเก่นเรื่อง ไม่มีตัวเนื้อหาที่จับต้องได้เลย เเต่เมื่ออ่านไปจนจบถึงส่วนคำตามของผู้เเปลจึงจะพอเข้าใจได้ว่าโชเซกิต้องการสื่ออะไร มีนัยยะหรือสัญลักษณ์อะไรเเอบเเฝงอยู่ในเนื้ออเรื่องบ้าง อาจจะไม่ได้ทำให้เข้าใจทั้งหมดเเต่ก็พอมองออกถึงสารที่โชเซกิต้องการนำเสนอไม่มากก็น้อย

..ส่วนเรื่องสั้นส่วนหลัง นกกระจอกชวา เเก่นเรื่องเป็นเพียงบันทึกการเลี้ยงนกเท่านั้นจริงๆ ตื่นมาดูนก ให้อาหาร ตอนเย็นนำกรงใส่กล่อง มีเเค่นี้ เเต่กลับอ่านเพลินเสียอย่างนั้น
..กลับกันจากส่วนฝัน เเม้ว่าเนื้อเรื่องจะกล่าวอย่างเป็นบันทึกความทรงจำ เเต่สำนวนการเล่าทำให้เราคิดว่ามันเป็นความฝันของโชเซกิมากกว่าส่วนเเรกด้วยซ้ำ

คิดว่าเป็นเล่มที่ถ้ากลับมาอ่านอีกครั้งเมื่อเวลาผ่านไป สิ่งที่ได้จากเล่มนี้คงไม่เหมือนเดิม เพราะมันมีช่องว่างให้ผู้อ่านตีความได้มากมายจริงๆ

[Mohade$eh · Rating 4 out of 5]

فضاسازی ها خیلی جالب و وهم آلود بودند ولی جز‌ این، چیز زیادی از مغز داستان ها دستگیرم نشد. شاید به دلیل ناآشنایی با تاریخ ژاپن باشد

[Melek · Rating 3 out of 5]

Soseki’nin 10 kısa öyküsü ve sonunda diğer öykülere nispeten daha uzun olan Tuhaf Bir Ses öyküsünün dahil edildiği öykü kitabı On Gece Düşleri. Kitaptaki öyküler benim açımdan çok akılda kalıcı öyküler olmadı.

Puanım 3,5!

[Fateme · Rating 4 out of 5]

اولین کتابی بود که از این نویسنده میخوندم و حس وحال عجیبی داشت . کتاب از ده داستان کوتاه تشکیل شده . ده داستانی که ده خواب رو روایت میکنه . در پیشگفتار کتاب گفته شده اینکه این ها واقعا رویاهای سوسه کی بوده اند یا داستان هایی کاملا تخیلی مشخص نیست.😶
کتاب در سبک سورئال هست . داستان ها به هم ربطی ندارن و مستقل از همن اما همشون یه حس وحال رو دارن و به مرگ وزندگی میپردازن.
فضاسازی کتاب واقعا خوبه. از بین داستان ها برای من شب هفتم و شب نهم جالب تر از همه بود
ظاهرا از روی داستان های این کتاب یک فیلم هم ساخته شده. (ده شب رویا_ ۲۰۰۷) (این ده تا خواب به همه چی میخوره جز رویا)
اگه از کتاب هایی که فضای سرد وتیره ای دارن یا نویسنده ای که به جمله《و زندگی شیرین میشود》اعتقادی نداره خوشتون نمیاد، این کتاب به شما پیشنهاد نمیشه.

[Mayk Can Şişman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Japon yazar Natsume Soseki’ye geçen yıl ‘Cam Kapının Ardı’ ile hayran kalmıştım. ‘On Gece Düşleri’ adlı öykü kitabı belki öyle muazzam akılda kalan öyküler barındırmasa da yine de gayet iyiydi. Özellikle ‘Birinci Gece’yi yani ilk öyküyü çok sevdim. Ama asıl favorim kitabın sonundaki sürpriz. Türk okuyucular için ‘On Gece Düşleri’nin sonuna eklenen ‘Tuhaf Bir Ses’i inanılmaz çok sevdim. Yan odadaki gizemli sesi çözmeye çalışan bir hastanın kısacık öyküsü olan ‘Tuhaf Bir Ses’ çok rahat bir novellaya bile dönüşebilirmiş aslında. Ve iyi ki bu kitaba dahil edilmiş… (Son dakika dahil edildiği albümü sırtlayan çıkış şarkısı ışığı var ‘Tuhaf Bir Ses’te 😇)

[ดินสอ สีไม้ · Rating 3 out of 5]

ดูเหมือนไม่มีอะไร แต่ก็เหมือนมีอะไร สนุกดีนะ
มันเหมือนมีอะไรบางอย่างให้เราติดตาม ให้เเราครุ่นคิด
อ่านกลางคืนเงียบๆ อย่าไปคาดหวังอะไร ได้ฟีลดี