I Am a Cat I

Description:

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 ..."

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,  Asian - Japanese,  Poetry (poetic works by one author),  Cats,  Middle class,  Japanese Humorous stories,  Social life and customs,  Japanese, fiction,  Pets,  Wit and humor,  Japanese fiction

Places: Japan