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This book is a representative work of Natsume Soseki, a master of modern Japanese literature, and is famous for its profound presentation of the theme of "self-grasping" in Natsume's literature. The original text is quaint and elegant, with every detail carefully crafted and rich in formal beauty. It is difficult to translate, so there has never been a Chinese translation. Mr. Lu Qiushi, a famous translator and winner of the Noma Literary Translator Award, spent two years carefully translating and restoring its original style. He also wrote a preface and annotations to interpret the book, which made up for this shortcoming.

This book collects Natsume Soseki's life in the UK or his works based on British literature and history, including "The Carlyle Museum", "Tower of London", "Phantom Shield" and "Xiaolu Xing". "Carlyle Museum": "It is this face that has been soaking in this bathtub that is about the same height as a radiator, lying on this simple bed for forty years, always complaining about the noise outside." Soseki's travel notes describing Soseki's visit to Thomas Carlyle's former residence. "Tower of London": "The Tower of London is like the focus of dreams in my previous life." This work is written based on Soseki's own experience of actually visiting the Tower of London and his unique vision of fantasy. It incorporates Soseki's views on Western painting. "Phantom Shield": "This is the world in the shield. However, William is the shield." This is a tragic love novel depicting the knights William and Clara in ancient times. William and Clara are like Romeo and Juliet. "The Dew Walk": It is a work with strong British literature. The story is based on the legend of King Arthur and describes the secret love between the legendary Knight of the Round Table Lancelot and Princess Guinevere. The name is quoted from the unknown poet's work "Song of Dew" in the ancient Yuefu ballads of the Han Dynasty in China.

"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.

Hit the nail on the head, hit the nail on the head, expose the ridiculous things in the world! The representative work of the great Japanese writer Natsume Soseki was praised by Lu Xun as "unparalleled in the world"! A model of critical realism literature that profoundly influenced literary masters such as Lu Xun and Ryunosuke Akutagawa! Natsume Soseki, a great national writer, was voted "the most popular writer in a thousand years" by the Japanese! A stone statue of Natsume Soso was once printed on the thousand-yen yen coin to commemorate his great contribution to Japanese literature. Recommended books for the new curriculum standards, must-read for primary and secondary school students! A must-select chapter in Japanese textbooks! Must-read reasons (1) The new translation vividly reproduces the humorous language style of "I am a Cat" and restores the charm of Natsume Soseki's writing. (2) Includes the preface written by Natsume Soseki to fully understand the background of the creation of this book. (3) Includes Natsume Soseki's "Memories of His Debut" to trace the origin of the author's creation. I am an unnamed cat who lives in a teacher's house. I enjoy observing the conversations between the owner and the guests every day. I can't help but complain about the ridiculous behavior of humans. No matter how rampant human beings are, it is impossible for them to remain so prosperous. Let us wait patiently for the arrival of the "Cat Era"!

Po Qing has long believed that I will be rich and powerful and become a big shot in the future. She firmly believes that the people she likes will definitely become big shots, and the people she hates will definitely live in poverty for the rest of their lives. I once asked Qingpo: "What kind of person will I become?" Unexpectedly, Qingpo didn't seem to have a clear idea. She just said: "You will definitely take a private rickshaw and build a house with a beautiful gatehouse." She made a big plan for me there alone: ​​"You have to erect a swing in the yard, and a Western-style room in your house will be enough..." And so on. At that time, I didn't want any house. Western-style houses and Japanese-style houses are of no use to me, so I always answer Qing Po: "I don't want that kind of thing." Guess what? Po Qing praised me again and said, "You have few desires and your heart is pure." Po Qing, no matter what I say, she always praises me.

"Heart" is the work of Natsume Soseki, a master of modern Japanese literature and a critical realist writer. It is still among the ten works that Japanese middle school students like to read. It is a confession of an egoist, which profoundly exposes the conflict between selfishness and morality. In 1910, Natsume Soseki suffered from gastric ulcer and experienced the experience of struggling on the verge of death. He changed his original humorous and game-like creative style, explored life from the front, focused on the psychological description and analysis of characters, and turned his writing directly to analyzing the hateful, sad, and lamentable lonely inner world of the egoists among the intellectuals in the Meiji era, thus creating the classic work "Heart".

"I Am a Cat" is Natsume Soseki's masterpiece, written from 1904 to September 1906. The author inherited the tradition of Japanese haiku literature and Western European satirical literature, using humorous and pungent satire techniques to expose and criticize the thoughts and lives of the Japanese petty and middle-class bourgeoisie at the beginning of the twentieth century. This work takes the cat of a poor teacher as the protagonist and observes human psychology from the cat's perspective. Taking the cat's vision as the axis, the structure is composed of episodic details and fragments, which has the prose characteristics of a novel; the language is both hard and soft, elegant and popular, and the sound and color are gorgeous. This is a cat who is good at thinking, knowledgeable, full of justice, and has a literary temperament, but he has never learned to catch mice until his death.

As a cat, the protagonist looked down at the Japanese society at that time and the so-called modern civilization in the twentieth century, while making all kinds of ridicule and ridicule. Through the life of the protagonist Kusama, the work uses humorous language, delicate writing style and sharp writing to describe a group of literati and snobs who are accustomed to talking about the past and the present. It vividly exposes and ridicules the capitalists and rulers, criticizes the society where money talks and blindly worships the Western lifestyle, and creates the image of a group of self-proclaimed and cynical intellectuals.

"I am a Cat" is the masterpiece of Japanese writer Natsume Soseki. In a humorous, sarcastic and comical way, this book uses the vision, hearing and feeling of a cat to describe the mediocre and trivial life of its owner, the poor teacher Kusha Mi, and his family, as well as the boring and elegant life of his friends Mi Ting, Han Yue, Dong Feng, Du Xian and others. The whole book is based on the daily life of the protagonist, a middle school teacher, Kushaya. It is interspersed with the conflicts of the neighbor capitalist Kaneda who tries to marry his daughter and plots to take revenge on Kushaya. It mocks the empty spiritual life of the intellectuals in the Meiji era and ridicules them for claiming to be noble but doing nothing. Dissatisfied with reality, but unable to resist; mediocre and boring, but denouncing the secular contradictory character, lashing out at the snobbish, vulgar, and cruel nature of bourgeois figures such as Kaneda and their accomplices, and criticizing the money-oriented society and the social habits of blind worship of Western lifestyles.

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" 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...

"Heart" tells the story of "Mr." Who met and fell in love with the landlady, and also won the favor of the landlady. However, because he was deceived by his uncle when he was young, he was always wary of others and could not express his feelings for a long time. Later, "Mr."'S friend K moved into the landlord's house and fell in love with the lady. K straightforwardly told his friend "Mr.

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...

When I was in college, I met a maverick gentleman by chance during a trip, and we became close friends. At that time, I was in confusion and couldn't find my direction in life. I especially wanted to get life guidance from my husband. As the relationship deepened, I found that my husband seemed to be a muddle-headed, passive and reclusive person, and there was even some kind of secret hidden in his words and deeds. One day, I suddenly received a posthumous letter from my husband. After learning his secret, I was shocked beyond words, because this secret could happen to each of you and me. To this day, I still believe that everyone who always lives in the past and lives in endless regret and self-blame will gain deep inner relief from Mr.'S story. Open this book to thoroughly see people's inner world and reconcile with your past self.

Nagai Daisuke is a "superfluous man" without a fixed occupation. He lives by asking his parents or brothers for money. After graduating from college, I still haven't settled down or found a job at the age of thirty. When he was young, he had a negative attitude towards everything, and once gave up his beloved Michiyo to his friend Hiraoka. However, Michiyo was not happy after marrying Hiraoka, and a child she gave birth to died soon after. After Hiraoka failed in his career, he returned to Tokyo from Osaka, and Machiyo came to ask for help and borrow money. Daisuke's love for Michiyo has not disappeared. He was determined to make amends for his mistakes, marry the troubled Machiyo, rescue her from her predicament, and start a new life. Because Daisuke's decision went against his father's will and he refused the marriage arranged by his father and brother, he broke up with the family and lost his living expenses. However, he did not change his mind. When he confessed everything to Ping Gang, Ping Gang angrily proposed to break off the relationship. Despite this, Daisuke and Michiyo love each other passionately and sincerely. Soon, Michiyo fell ill. In order to survive, Daizhu ran around under the scorching sun, looking for a job.

"I" am a cat, a cat with thoughts and soul. The owner of "my" seems to be diligent and hard-working, but in his heart he is a stubborn, willful, pedantic and aloof man, who is often laughed at by his neighbors. The master often gets together with his friends, Mi Ting, Han Yue, Du Xian and others, to discuss some unrealistic and meaningless things, which make "I" feel both absurd and ridiculous. "I" also met all kinds of people: the snobbish "big nose", the vicious capitalists, the neighbors who are greedy for money... In the eyes of "I", everything is ugly. "I Am a Cat" is the representative work of Natsume Soseki, Japan's "national writer". The novel tells the story from the perspective of a cat, describing the daily life of the cat owner and his friends in detail, with humor, exquisite conception and distinctive characteristics. The novel shows the empty spiritual world of the intellectuals in Meiji society and exposes the thoughts and life of the petty bourgeoisie. It has a distinctive satirical color and has a profound influence on the history of Japanese literature.

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!

At the beginning of Natsume Soseki's later trilogy, rational life is still full of flaws. "After the Vernal Equinox" is a novel by Natsume Soseki. It was serialized in the "Asahi Shimbun" from January to April 1912, and was later compiled into a book. It describes the newly graduated Keitaro who was running around for a job, and later obtained the position with the help of his friend Suunaga. As a result, he became acquainted with Suunaga, Suunaga's uncle, and his cousin Chiyoko. He watched the love troubles between Suunaga, who was strongly self-aware and regarded himself as a philosopher, and his passionate and naive cousin Chiyoko. It describes the state of Japanese intellectual circles after the Meiji Restoration and the confusion and hesitation of intellectuals.

"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.

A novel by Natsume Soseki. The novel describes the collision of love and friendship, and the conflict between self-interest and morality in a slow, quiet and breathtaking writing style. It highlights the contradiction, confusion, helplessness and helplessness of the spiritual world of modern Japanese intellectuals, and at the same time raises a serious life issue. This novel is arguably Soseki's most fascinating work.

Nagai Daisuke is a redundant person. He has no achievements and no ambitions. Facing reality, he is more sober than anyone else, but yet more cowardly than anyone else. He is smart, calm, stubborn, and naive and thinks that he has recognized a fact: as long as he does not have a strong desire and does not fight hard, there will never be the pain of disappointment. Until something that really made him desperate quietly appeared...

"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.