Natsume Soseki I Am a Cat

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This English version of ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (Wagahai-wa neko de aru: I Am a Cat), Chapters I and II, written by Natsume Soseki, 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."...

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