I Am a Cat
By Soseki Natsume
Translated by Aiko Ito, Translated by Aiko Ito
Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece,I Am a Catsatirizes 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.
"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..."-The New Yorker
- ISBN:
- 9780804832656
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 480
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Tuttle Publishing
- Imprint:
- Tuttle Publishing
- Weight:
- 510 g