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I Am a Cat

By Natsume Soseki

Book information

Publisher
Tuttle Pub
Year
2011
ISBN
9781462901753, 1462901751
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1103706 bytes)
Series
Tuttle classics
Pages
481\0
Time added
2017-12-20 06:49:22
-- 1867-1916 -- Wagahai wa neko de aru;Wagahai waNatsumeSōsekiSōseki);Literature;Fiction

Description

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 ..."  Read more...

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