I Am a Cat
About This Novel
"I Am a Cat" is the representative and famous work of Japan's "national master" Natsume Soseki, which has a profound influence on Japanese literature. The writing angle of "I Am a Cat" is very novel. It observes the people and things around it from the perspective of a cat. This cat lived in a teacher's home and met all kinds of literati: Mi Ting, who was heartless and nonsensical, and was afraid of the world being in chaos; Han Yue, who was rigid and meticulous, a little inflexible; idealistic, a lonely fairy who only had theory but no practice... Of course, there was also the cat's owner, the pedantic and impatient Kushina, who only took three minutes to do things and was self-righteous. In the eyes of cats, these people gather together to discuss meaningless things all day long. They are dissatisfied with the reality and only complain. They are like the novice monks who suffered miserably from the pranks played by the students in the private school and were laughed at by their neighbors, but they were helpless.
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Immersive experience
The success of this book, in my humble opinion, is largely due to the author's clever use of a specific perspective - cats. In the novel, cats are endowed with human consciousness and thinking while retaining their inherent animal habits. Using this unique perspective to examine human beings' words and deeds can not only produce a comic effect of defamiliarization, but also reveal the ill-advised nature of human beings themselves.
Allusions to Natsume Soseki
Natsume Soseki is a translator, you know. He once translated "I love you" like "I like you". He said that Easterners are more euphemistic, so they should translate "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight" like this.
The author observes the world from the perspective of a cat and describes everything that happens around him. There are joys and sorrows, ridicule, belittling, helplessness, panic and bewilderment. The protagonist, the cat, is smart and thinks that he is smarter than everyone else and has seen more of the human world and has God's perspective. But in the end, the poor cat still died. This is also a fate that every human being cannot escape. It is a kind of relief!
Maybe my acting skills are also very poor.
Humans are not affectionate animals. The tears they shed and the gestures of sympathy they make in interpersonal interactions are just the taxes they must pay to be human. This kind of confusing performance is actually a very laborious art. Those who are good at performing are respected as "the more conscientious in this art field" and are very popular in society. Therefore, there is nothing more unreliable than a human being who can eat well. Try it out once you try it.
I am a cat, a considerate cat
. . .
I, I don't know what to say. I can only say that it was recommended by the teacher and is one of the must-read books for the high school entrance examination. . Cry😭, I don't like reading this kind of book that much
It's pretty cool, a cat-sucking crowd floats by
See the various aspects of life through the eyes of a cat.
There was an excerpt in the primary school textbook, and I became obsessed with this book. I really wanted to buy a paper version, but the bookstore didn't have it. I'll buy it online some other time. Looking forward to it.
Don't think that cats only eat and sleep. They always see the side of us that we don't approve of. Cats can look at people and criticize them.
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Official(92)Scraped 2d ago
Immersive experience
The success of this book, in my humble opinion, is largely due to the author's clever use of a specific perspective - cats. In the novel, cats are endowed with human consciousness and thinking while retaining their inherent animal habits. Using this unique perspective to examine human beings' words and deeds can not only produce a comic effect of defamiliarization, but also reveal the ill-advised nature of human beings themselves.
Allusions to Natsume Soseki
Natsume Soseki is a translator, you know. He once translated "I love you" like "I like you". He said that Easterners are more euphemistic, so they should translate "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight" like this.
The author observes the world from the perspective of a cat and describes everything that happens around him. There are joys and sorrows, ridicule, belittling, helplessness, panic and bewilderment. The protagonist, the cat, is smart and thinks that he is smarter than everyone else and has seen more of the human world and has God's perspective. But in the end, the poor cat still died. This is also a fate that every human being cannot escape. It is a kind of relief!
Maybe my acting skills are also very poor.
Humans are not affectionate animals. The tears they shed and the gestures of sympathy they make in interpersonal interactions are just the taxes they must pay to be human. This kind of confusing performance is actually a very laborious art. Those who are good at performing are respected as "the more conscientious in this art field" and are very popular in society. Therefore, there is nothing more unreliable than a human being who can eat well. Try it out once you try it.
I am a cat, a considerate cat
. . .
I, I don't know what to say. I can only say that it was recommended by the teacher and is one of the must-read books for the high school entrance examination. . Cry😭, I don't like reading this kind of book that much
It's pretty cool, a cat-sucking crowd floats by
See the various aspects of life through the eyes of a cat.
There was an excerpt in the primary school textbook, and I became obsessed with this book. I really wanted to buy a paper version, but the bookstore didn't have it. I'll buy it online some other time. Looking forward to it.
Don't think that cats only eat and sleep. They always see the side of us that we don't approve of. Cats can look at people and criticize them.
