吾輩は猫である
by 夏目漱石, Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson
1996FictionFiction, generalNear and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)Japan, fictionGeneral
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Open LibraryAbout this book
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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FictionFiction, generalNear and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)Japan, fictionGeneralPoetry
First published 1996Setting
Japan
About the authors
夏目漱石
1867 – 1916
Graeme Wilson
1919
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