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"Heart" is the representative and famous work of Japan's "national master" Natsume Soseki, which has a profound influence on Japanese literature. "I" in the novel accidentally got acquainted with a "sir" who was noble and well-educated. During the interaction, "I" was deeply attracted by his aloof character and the mysterious past behind him. Later, "I" received a long letter from "Mr." In the letter, the husband recounted the past: When they were in college, "the husband" and his best friend K fell in love with the landlord's daughter at the same time. In order to get her, "Mr." Forced K to commit suicide. Although he finally got the beauty he wanted, he has been condemned by his conscience for many years...

A landmark figure in the history of modern Japanese literature, the "national writer" Natsume Soseki's famous "Love Trilogy" divides love into three forms: lovesickness, love, and marriage. From scratch, from ignorance to maturity, he writes about the reality and helplessness on the hesitant life. It includes three volumes of "Sanshirō", "The Next Thing" and "The Gate", which are still recommended readings for Japanese high schools. The text is simple, humorous, vivid and touching. It directly criticizes hypocritical secular morality and various social ills, and is a baptism of youth for young people who have just entered the society and are hesitant to explore.

Young people a hundred years ago were just like you and me today, stuck in borrowing money, eating old age, and falling in love with an impossible person. "Natsume Soseki's "Post-Love Trilogy"" (a set of 3 volumes) includes "After the Spring Breeze", a short story written by the Japanese writer Natsume Soseki between 1912 and 1914, a novel "Pedestrian" that depicts physical and mental exhaustion and literary career, and a novel "Heart" that describes Japanese humanistic concepts in a love triangle. Natsume Soseki experimented and verified his own experiences and thoughts through the construction of the novel world. Compared with his earlier works, he paid more attention to reflecting the loneliness deep in people's hearts and criticizing the social and cultural psychology of the time. The trilogy deeply depicts the various groups of people in the Meiji era who began to consider issues of life and death and pursue self-interest, highlighting the contradictions, confusion, helplessness, and helplessness of the spiritual world of modern Japanese intellectuals. "Heart", the best-selling novel in the history of Japanese literature, depicts the inner loneliness and hesitation of intellectuals in the Meiji period. The humorous language and understatement of satire directly address the pain points of social and cultural psychology.

"I am a Cat" is Natsume Soseki's masterpiece. From the perspective of a cat, the novel observes and comments on the daily life of its owner, Kushaya, who is a middle school teacher, and his friends, as well as events such as the marriage of the daughter of the capitalist neighbor Kaneda. The cat language in the novel is humorous and witty, and the author uses it to mock the empty spiritual world of the intellectuals in Meiji society and expose the snobbish, vulgar and ferocious nature of the bourgeoisie. The book is cleverly conceived and exaggerated in technique, vividly reflecting the thoughts and life of Japan's petty and middle-class bourgeoisie at the beginning of the 20th century, exposing and criticizing the "civilized and enlightened" capitalist society of the Meiji period.

After Kenzo returned to Tokyo from studying in the UK, he devoted himself to learning with full enthusiasm, but his monthly salary was only enough for his family to live frugally. The downcast father-in-law, poor adoptive parents, skinny brother and sick sister all regarded Kenzo, who had studied abroad, as their "backbone" and asked him for money directly or indirectly. Although his life was in embarrassment, Kenzo would give him some due to his kindness. And because he is not good at expressing his feelings and thoughts, he often has conflicts with his wife. Kenzo is struggling to make a living and is not good at socializing, unable to relieve his mental loneliness and confusion. Caught between money and ideals, he reflects on the meaning of life while struggling to hold on to his ideals. Finally, everything finally came to an end for the time being.

"I am a Cat" is Natsume Soseki's masterpiece. The novel vividly reflects the thoughts and life of Japan's petty and middle-class bourgeoisie at the beginning of the twentieth century, and sharply exposes and criticizes the "civilized and enlightened" capitalist society of Meiji. This work takes a poor teacher's cat as the protagonist and observes human psychology from the perspective of this anthropomorphized cat. This is a cat who is good at thinking, knowledgeable, full of justice and literary temperament, but he has never learned to catch mice until his death.

Sosuke and Ami live in a world within the gate. They became husband and wife due to an accidental encounter. They fed each other with sweet love inside the gate. But when they went out, they were spurned by society and experienced the pain of deviating from morality. Compared with the simple Ami, Zongsuke is tortured by guilt all the time. In order to stay away from it all, he escapes to a temple in the mountains, hoping that Zen learning can open the locked door in his heart. However, his practice encountered more doors, and he could not muster the courage to open them anyway. He could only stand outside the door forever, staring at his lonely self...

"I Am a Cat" is a famous work by Japan's "national master" Natsume Soseki, and is known as "a monument to Japanese critical realism literature." The author uses cat language to expose the nature of human money worship and egoism, and criticizes the society that worships money and the social habits of worshiping foreign things.

This set of books consists of four volumes, namely "What Happened Later", "Sanshiro", "The Gate" and "I Am a Cat". It is the representative work of Natsume Soseki, a great Japanese writer who is good at describing personal psychology in detail!

"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.

The marriage that everyone admired was the reason why Tsuda decided to leave Tokyo temporarily after the operation. The story begins when Tsuda is about to be hospitalized for the second time. His father sends a notice, suspending financial assistance. This makes Tsuda very embarrassed, so his wife Ayan wants to sell her gorgeous clothes, but Tsuda, who has always doted on his wife, does not want to do this because he feels it is shameful. In this way, Tsuda planned to let some relatives of the couple interact with his father, hoping to get his father to send this month's subsidy as soon as possible. From this, two families were brought together... After going through the pain and waste of life, and on a journey of self-cultivation away from his hometown, Tsuda will eventually find the eyes that have longed for him the most.

Natsume Soseki's novel, written in 1908, forms a love trilogy with "The Next Thing" and "The Gate". The protagonist Sanshirō Ogawa graduated from high school in Kumamoto and was admitted to a university in Tokyo. After coming to Tokyo, a world completely different from what he had known before, under the impact of modern civilization and modern women, he was confused and at a loss. He was surrounded by three worlds at the same time: one was his hometown of Kumamoto, the other was the world of learning where Nonomiya and Hirota teachers lived, and the third was the world of glitz. Sanshirō becomes increasingly attracted to the glitzy world in which his crush, Miyako, lives. Sanshirō is passionately devoted to Miyako, but Miyako's attitude is ambiguous. She mentioned the term "lost lamb" to Sanshirō several times, but eventually married her brother's friend. Ordinary young people slowly grow up through interactions with all kinds of people in the metropolis.

Although Fujio, the daughter of a well-known family, had a tacit marriage contract with his "relative" Munechika, after his father's death, his mother urged him to marry the poet Ono as soon as possible in order to seize the inheritance from Fujio's half-brother Kono. Ono became a scholar with the support of his mentor Inoue. Faced with the olive branch offered by the Fujio family, he unexpectedly failed to live up to the deep friendship of his mentor who had worked hard to cultivate him for many years. He cruelly rejected the love of Sayoko, who had been close to him for many years, and desperately wanted to marry Fujio. When all the truth was exposed by Kono and Munechika, Ono resolutely changed his mind, determined to sever the relationship with Fujio, and reconcile with Sayoko; Fujio became angry and chose to end his life...

"I am a Cat" established Natsume Soseki's position in literary history. 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.