I am a cat
Original title: 吾輩は猫である
earliest edition we have, 1965 C.E. Tuttle Co., 1972 hardcover 3 pages
Shōnen shōjo Nihon bungakukan -- 27-28
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, t...
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