Natsume, Soseki: I Am a Cat

Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him."A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name." —The New Yorker