I Am a Cat
by:
Sōseki Natsume (author)
Aiko Ito (translator)
Graeme Wilson (translator)
Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies...
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Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him.The New Yorker called it "a nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action..."
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B007MAU4HA
Publish date: 2011-12-20
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Pages no: 658
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
Cultural,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Animals,
Cats,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Series: 青い鳥文庫 1-100 9-1 (#69)
Apparently this is a classic of Japanese fiction. It dates from the period following the collapse of feudalism and opening up to outside influence, with consequent social upheaval. Soseki pokes gentle fun at the culture he finds himself in and gets away with it, mainly through the twin devices of ma...
A Japanese boyband member made me want to read this.
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