I Am a Cat

This English version of 吾輩は猫である (Wagahai-wa neko de aru: I Am a Cat), Chapters I and II, written by Natsume Sōseki, pseudonym of Natsume Kinnosuke (1867–1916), and translated by Kan-ichi Ando (1878-1924), was published by Hattori Shoten, Tokyo, in 1906. It begins: I am a cat; but as yet I have no name. Its sardonic feline narrator describes his origins, his settlement in the household of a Meiji teacher-intellectual, and the goings-on and conversations among the cats and humans about the neighborhood. Of the men he concludes: They are miserable creatures in the eyes of a cat. Japanese novelist Natsume Sōseki studied literature in England and became professor at Tokyo Imperial University. The success of his stories, beginning with I Am a Cat, launched a successful career that produced 22 novels, including Botchan, Kokoro, and Light and Darkness. ISBN 978-1-60962-219-0 ebook doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1310 133 pp.https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1112/thumbnail.jp