Japanese I Am a Cat

'Ello, I just got a spiffy book called "I Am a Cat" by Soseki Natsume and so far it seems pretty cool. It's kinda old but it's Jap. Literature and I thought maybe some peoples here would wanna read it. So I just wanted to tell everyone about it..

And I need to post in order to get a custom avatar...I think.

Later,
Mako-Sama

 

I'm afraid I've never read that one... What's cool about it? what's it about? How's the writing?

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wants to know

 

Well....it's written from the point of view of a cat..in japan....that's basically all I can say about it for now until I read more.

 

That book sounds familiar... I think it's a really famous book in Japan... I could be wrong though

 

I thought it was okay. I read a Korean Translation of the book.

 

It's very famous boook by Natsume Soseki. His photo is printed on 1000-yen bill. All Japanese know him and I know him too of course!!

Meccha genki mikko

 

Cool I am a cat! I'd like to read it, it sounds pretty cute..Out of what you read so far what do you think its about?

 

'I am a cat' is a very interesting story. It is written from the point of view of a cat. The time is the Meiji Era and it's more than a hundred year ago Japan was being civilized dramatically then. The cat satirizes the society He thinks his owner is stupid and cruticises him It's funny.

This book is not so long unlike Ulysses and not so many characteres unlike War and peace)))))) So you can read it easily Just try it)))

Meccha genki Mikko

 

Awesome!!

Cool where do you think i could find a book of that....I'd love to read it, sounds neat!

 

I can find it at any book store here. But, I don't know how to get it in your country... Sorry...

 

That sound sfamiliar...

No offense, but when i read the phrases "satirizing", "his owner is an idiot" i immediately remembered garfield.

Heheh.... I wonder if the book is as funny.

 

Well I got it at some d&d, collectible cards, comics, anime, all that kinda stuff store near by. But since it's jap. literature I'm sure you could find it at a barnes and nobles or books a million, whatever.

So far it's pretty cool, the cat's owner is a teacher who just sleeps all the time but complains how hard his job is to his friends. Right now I'm juggling between this book and Memoirs of Geisha which I also heard was very good. So I'll tell you guys how it is when I'm done...which be in a couple months probably since I'm a slow reader..