Poetry · 1920
吾輩は猫である
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- First published
- 1905
- This copy printed
- 1920
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Cloth
- Condition
- Very good — Light wear to the binding, text clean and complete.
- Pages
- 431
About this work
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 ..."
