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I found this on my favorite seiyuu's IG. She's talking about a book.

> もちろん未知なお話だけど、もしかしたらユリゴコロは誰でも胸の中に眠っているのではないのか、など共感出来る部分もあったり。

My understanding of the sentence above is despite the book is unheard of, she
wants to tell us that the book (the content, the story, the feeling) is
actually in our heart and we can sympathize with it. But why she chose to use
ではない there? Or is it related to のか or など?

Also, what's the translation of that sentence? Thanks!
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particles learning particle-など
About ではない, のか and など
ではないのか is one phrase. It means "wonder","suspect". もしかしたら～ではないのか means "I
wonder that maybe ～."
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These two phrases are different: ではない, ではないのか.

**How different**

The former phrase ではない means to negate or deny something. The phrase is a
direct expression. See the following example.

> 好きではない
>
> Not like; Dislike

The latter phrase ではないのか, usually in the form of ではないか, changes the direct
expression to an indirect expression that hints a suggestion or possible
outcome. See adapted examples.

> 好きではないのか
>
> Does [one] not like?
>
> 子供は本を好きではないのか。
>
> Don't children like books?

As a result, the last sentence is now open to more than one possibility of
answer: the children like books, the children dislike books, the children
neither like nor dislike books. The direct expression earlier is now being
questioned and the answer could be any one of those.

**What phrase after that**

Japanese sentences could omit spacing between words and phrases, which makes a
sentence difficult to be identified by parts. Consider the quoted part of
sentence from above question.

> ○○ではないのか、など○○

What comes after 「○○ではないのか」 is a comma and 「など」 that means "et cetera". So the
word など is related to the preceding phrase and not related to phrases after
that. One could have noticed this, if 「など○○」 had spacing in between.

In Japanese, the word 「など」 is often found in middle of a sentence, and seldom
found at the end of a sentence. The trend is opposite in English, in which the
word "et cetera" is often found at the end of sentences.

**What seiyuu says and why**

Now returning to the quoted sentence from the seiyuu, followed by the
translation in English. Except for the word ユリゴコロ, this would be explained
afterwards.

> もちろん未知なお話だけど、もしかしたらユリゴコロは誰でも胸の中に眠っているのではないのか、など共感出来る部分もあったり。
>
> The story was certainly new (unknown) however, there have had parts that
> [one] can feel sympathy [in which] perhaps ユリゴコロ does exist (dormant) in the
> heart of anyone, et cetera.

The seiyuu expressed her opinion by using the phrase 「ではないのか」 to suggest a
possibility that ユリゴコロ does exist. But this phrase by itself does not
necessarily mean ユリゴコロ actually exist; The fact something that was certain
before is now made questionable.

**What is ユリゴコロ**

The word 「ユリゴコロ」 is invalid (not found in dictionary) and has no definite
meaning. Also, the translated title "Nan-Core" does not make sense and has no
definite meaning either. Those who actually read and review the book may
figure out the intended meaning.

There is an opinion that suggest 「ユリゴコロ」 is a wordplay for 「拠り所」, which
literally means "place to depend on". The interpretation may differ, as noted
by a thread on Yahoo!知恵袋.

> Q: [...] 拠り所をユリゴコロと聞き違えていますが、それがイコールではないですよね？
>
> A:
> 「拠り所の聞き違え」という一応の説明がありますが、質問者さんのおっしゃるとおりで、この物語に触れた人によっていくつも解釈ができるようになっていると感じました。なので、質問者さんが殺人衝動だと感じたなら、それもアリなのではないでしょうか。正解がないですもんね。
> [...]

In short, ユリゴコロ is _not_ equal to 拠り所; There is no correct interpretation to
this. That being said, 「○○ではないのか」 is expressing an opinion about ユリゴコロ and the
seiyuu may have other related opinions as indicated by 「など」.

**References**

  1. [では無い on Jisho.org](http://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%A7%E3%81%AF%E7%84%A1%E3%81%84)
  2. [では無いか on Jisho.org](http://jisho.org/word/%E3%81%A7%E3%81%AF%E7%84%A1%E3%81%84%E3%81%8B)
  3. [など #sentences on Jisho.org](http://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%A9%20%23sentences)
  4. [など。 #sentences on Jisho.org](http://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%A9%E3%80%82%20%23sentences) (Note the period)
  5. [ユリゴコロ by Mahokaru Numata on Goodreads.com](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19265504)
  6. [Nan-Core by Mahokaru Numata on Goodreads.com](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20819762-nan-core)
  7. [沼田まほからさんの「ユリゴコロ」を読まれた方に... on Yahoo!知恵袋](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1272893592)
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