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I Am a Cat
Cover of the 1906 English translation
Author
Natsume Sōseki
Original title
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru (吾輩は猫である)
Translator
Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Genre
Satirical novel
Publication date
1905–1906
Published in English
1972 by Tuttle Publishing
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN
978-0-8048-3265-6
OCLC
49703480
LC Class
PL812.A8 W313 2002
I Am a Cat (Japanese: 吾輩は猫である, Hepburn: Wagahai wa Neko de Aru) is a satirical novel written in 1905–1906 by Natsume Sōseki about Japanese society during the Meiji period (1868–1912), particularly the uneasy mix of Western culture and Japanese traditions.
Sōseki's title, Wagahai wa Neko de Aru, uses a very high-register phrasing more appropriate to a nobleman, conveying grandiloquence and self-importance. This is somewhat ironic, since the speaker, an anthropomorphized domestic cat, is a regular house cat of a teacher, and not of a high-ranking noble as the manner of speech suggests, an example of Sōseki's love for droll writing.
The book was first published in ten installments in the literary journal Hototogisu. At first, Sōseki intended only to write the short story that constitutes the first chapter of I Am a Cat. However, Takahama Kyoshi, one of the editors of Hototogisu, persuaded Sōseki to serialize the work, which evolved stylistically as the installments progressed. Nearly all the chapters can stand alone as discrete works.[1]
^Nathan, Richard (10 September 2021). "Soseki's Cat: A Quantum Leap for Japanese Literature". Red Circle.
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