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About This Novel
"I am a Cat" established Natsume Soseki's status in the literary world. The novel adopts humorous, satirical and comical techniques, using the vision, hearing and feeling of a cat. It takes the daily life of the protagonist, middle school teacher Jinno Kusami, as the main line, interspersed with the conflicts of neighbor capitalist Kaneda who fails to marry a girl and plots revenge on Kusami, making it laugh. It explores the empty spiritual life of intellectuals in the Meiji era, and satirizes them for claiming to be noble but doing nothing; being dissatisfied with reality but unable to resist; being mediocre and boring, but denouncing the contradictory character of the world, and lashing out at the snobbish, vulgar, and cruel nature of Kaneda and other bourgeois figures and their accomplices. The novel has ingenious conception, exaggerated description, flexible structure and distinctive artistic features.
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Official(33)Scraped 22d ago
This book is so beautiful
Very good book
Okay, this book
Super humorous book, very interesting to watch
The writing is very good, and his words are clear. I think it is very good and very interesting.
This novel is okay
It's great to read. This book is written from a cat's perspective, giving it a unique feel.
So fun, but very, very good, and looks addicting
Various aspects of the human world through the eyes of cats?9?3
Wow... So pitiful?0?1
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Community(0)
Official(33)Scraped 22d ago
This book is so beautiful
Very good book
Okay, this book
Super humorous book, very interesting to watch
The writing is very good, and his words are clear. I think it is very good and very interesting.
This novel is okay
It's great to read. This book is written from a cat's perspective, giving it a unique feel.
So fun, but very, very good, and looks addicting
Various aspects of the human world through the eyes of cats?9?3
Wow... So pitiful?0?1
