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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…
| Japanese title: | Wagahai wa neko de aru |
| Subjects: | Fiction Literature Natsume Soseki, Translations into English Natsume Soseki, Wagahai wa neko de aru |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Wagahai wa neko de aru. |
| Description: | 218 S. |
| ISBN: | 9784805302880 |
| OCLC Number: | 174574547 |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Publisher: | Charles E. Tuttle, 1972, 1979, 1986, 1994, 2002, 2011 |
| Publication Place: | Rutland, VT, Boston |
| Japanese Publication Date: | 1905 |
| English Publication Date: | 1972 |
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