Miner

　　《坑夫》具體描述了礦工的悲?生活，是對日本明治政府的?烈控訴。關心普通人的命運，表現普通人的願望、情?和煩惱，是夏目漱石作品的又一個重要?容。

　　The Miner, the second of Soseki’s nine novels, is his most experimental and least well known. First appearing in serialized form in the columns of the Asahi newspaper in 1908, the novel is virtually devoid of plot or characterization, and instead unfolds within the mind of the unnamed protagonist-narrator, a young man caught in a love triangle who flees Tokyo, is picked up by a procurer of cheap labor for a copper mine, and then travels toward and inside the depths of the mine in search of oblivion. The young man reflects at length on nearly every thought and perception he experiences along the way in terms of shat each experience means to him at the time and in retrospect as a mature adult narrating thr rale. Ruminating extensively on the nature of personality, he concludes that there is no such thing as human character. The result is a novel that is both absurb and comical.