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I am a Cat III

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..."

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 268
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780804818605
  • Genres
  • fiction, classics, novels, japan, asia
  • Release date
  • 1993