About This Novel
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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The cat originally wanted to stay as still as possible and help its owner draw the picture. But I feel the urge to urinate frequently and I am about to urinate. I had no choice but to stretch my legs forward and yawn to relieve the urge to urinate. But the master's original plan was ruined, so he was scolded by the master.
This cat raised by the owner is not outstanding, and it cannot surpass other cats in terms of body shape, coat color, etc. But no matter how ugly it is, it cannot be as strange as the owner described it. Forget it, the color is wrong, and it doesn't even have eyes.
The last time the cat sharpened its claws on the tatami, the mistress got very angry and never allowed the cat to enter the Japanese room. Even if the cat squatted on the wooden floor of the kitchen and shivered pitifully, the mistress didn't care. This bitter trick is no longer useful to the hostess.
This book gave me the greatest peace when I was in a huge mental state due to a cliff-hanging relationship downgrade.
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Official(4)Scraped 4d ago
The cat originally wanted to stay as still as possible and help its owner draw the picture. But I feel the urge to urinate frequently and I am about to urinate. I had no choice but to stretch my legs forward and yawn to relieve the urge to urinate. But the master's original plan was ruined, so he was scolded by the master.
This cat raised by the owner is not outstanding, and it cannot surpass other cats in terms of body shape, coat color, etc. But no matter how ugly it is, it cannot be as strange as the owner described it. Forget it, the color is wrong, and it doesn't even have eyes.
The last time the cat sharpened its claws on the tatami, the mistress got very angry and never allowed the cat to enter the Japanese room. Even if the cat squatted on the wooden floor of the kitchen and shivered pitifully, the mistress didn't care. This bitter trick is no longer useful to the hostess.
This book gave me the greatest peace when I was in a huge mental state due to a cliff-hanging relationship downgrade.
