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Sōseki Natsume
1906 · 87,751 characters
Ever since I was a child, the recklessness I inherited from my parents has brought me nothing but trouble.
A headstrong Tokyoite takes a post teaching mathematics at a middle school in Shikoku. Redshirt, Clown, Porcupine, Hubbard Squash: he hands out nicknames, and then collides with every one of them, telling the whole thing himself at speed.
Because it is all in one voice from beginning to end, it suits narration unusually well. Lines that run away with you on the page turn comic when they are spoken. Watching that cast of nicknames line up in bubbles is its own pleasure.
Source: Aozora Bunko; base text published by Chikuma Shobō, 1992. The volunteers who transcribed and proofread it are credited on the Japanese page. The copyright on this work has expired.
The narration is synthesized speech, not a recording by a voice actor.