吾輩は猫である
About this book
Written over the course of 1904 through 1906, 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 ..."
Subjects
- asian - japanese
- cats
- fiction
- fiction - general
- fiction, general
- general
- japanese
- japanese fiction
- japanese, fiction
- japanese humorous stories
- japanese novel and short story
- japan, fiction
- literary criticism
- middle class
- modern fiction
- near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
- pets
- poetry
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- single author
- social life and customs
- translations into english
- wit and humor