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吾輩は猫である
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 ..."
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Fiction, general
- Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Japan, fiction
- General
- Poetry
- Single Author
- Modern fiction
- Literary Criticism
- Japanese Novel And Short Story
- Fiction - General
- Japanese