I Am a Cat / Soseki Natsume; translated by Aiko Ito & Graeme Wilson.
By: Soseki, Natsume
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Contributor(s): Ito, Aiko [translator] | Wilson, Graeme [translator].
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BookPlace of publication: s.lPublisher: Tuttle PublishingDate of publication: 2002Description: viii, 469 pages: 21 cm.ISBN: 9780804832656.Subject(s): Cats -- Fiction | Japanese fiction -- Meiji period | Humorous stories | Japan -- Manners and customs -- FictionDDC classification: 895.634 So72 2002 Summary: "I am a cat. As yet I have no name."
So begins one of the most original and unforgettable works in Japanese literature.
Richly allegorical and delightfully readable, I Am a Cat is the chronicle of an unloved, unwanted, wandering kitten who spends all his time observing human nature - from the dramas of businessmen and schoolteachers to the foibles of priests and potentates. From this unique perspective, author Soseki Natsume offers a biting commentary - shaped by his training in Chinese philosophy - on the social upheaval of the Meiji era.
I Am a Cat first appeared in ten installments in the literary magazine Hototogisu (Cuckoo), between 1905 and 1906. Soseki had not intended to write more than the short story that makes up the first chapter of this book. After its great critical and popular success, he expanded it into this epic novel, which is universally recognized as a classic of world literature.
(From the back cover)
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"I am a cat. As yet I have no name."
So begins one of the most original and unforgettable works in Japanese literature.
Richly allegorical and delightfully readable, I Am a Cat is the chronicle of an unloved, unwanted, wandering kitten who spends all his time observing human nature - from the dramas of businessmen and schoolteachers to the foibles of priests and potentates. From this unique perspective, author Soseki Natsume offers a biting commentary - shaped by his training in Chinese philosophy - on the social upheaval of the Meiji era.
I Am a Cat first appeared in ten installments in the literary magazine Hototogisu (Cuckoo), between 1905 and 1906. Soseki had not intended to write more than the short story that makes up the first chapter of this book. After its great critical and popular success, he expanded it into this epic novel, which is universally recognized as a classic of world literature.
(From the back cover)
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