[I am a Cat 01] • I Am a Cat
![[I am a Cat 01] • I Am a Cat](/cover/LNX9yEdeN26WIB_z/big/[I%20am%20a%20Cat%2001]%20%e2%80%a2%20I%20Am%20a%20Cat.jpg)
- Authors
- Soseki, Natsume
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Tags
- classics
- ISBN
- 9781462901753
- Date
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.05 MB
- Lang
- en
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..."