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I Am a Cat
Tuttle Classics
Author | Souseki Natsume |
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Translator | Graeme Wilson |
Translation | Aiko Ito |
Price | JPY 2,420 |
ISBN | 978-4-8053-1097-7 |
Format | 130×203mm 470pages Paperback |
Availability | In stock |
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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