
著者がコペル少年の精神的成長に託して語り伝えようとしたものは何か。それは、人生いかに生くべきかと問うとき、常にその問いが社会科学的認識とは何かという問題と切り離すことなく問われねばならぬ、というメッセージであった。著者の没後追悼の意をこめて書かれた「『君たちはどう生きるか』をめぐる回想」(丸山真男)を付載。
Kimi-tachi wa Dou Ikiru ka is a Japanese novel of 156,550 characters, with 7,831 unique words and 1,713 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 7,831 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.