Godina izdanja: 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3265-6
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

SOSEKI NATSUME

I AM A CAT

Prevod - Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson

Izdavač - Tuttle Publishing, North Clarendon

Godina - 2002

470 strana

21 cm

ISBN - 978-0-8048-3265-6

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja


`I Am a Cat (Japanese: 吾輩は猫である, Hepburn: Wagahai wa Neko de Aru) is a satirical novel written in 1905–1906 by Natsume Sōseki about Japanese society during the Meiji period (1868–1912), particularly the uneasy mix of Western culture and Japanese traditions.

Sōseki`s title, Wagahai wa Neko de Aru, uses a very high-register phrasing more appropriate to a nobleman, conveying grandiloquence and self-importance. This is somewhat ironic, since the speaker, an anthropomorphized domestic cat, is a regular house cat of a teacher, and not of a high-ranking noble as the manner of speech suggests, an example of Sōseki`s love for droll writing.

The book was first published in ten installments in the literary journal Hototogisu. At first, Sōseki intended only to write the short story that constitutes the first chapter of I Am a Cat. However, Takahama Kyoshi, one of the editors of Hototogisu, persuaded Sōseki to serialize the work, which evolved stylistically as the installments progressed. Nearly all the chapters can stand alone as discrete works.

I Am a Cat is a frequent assignment to Japanese schoolchildren, such that the plot and style remain well-known long after publication. One effect was that the narrator`s manner of speech, which was archaic even at the time of writing, became largely associated with the cat and the book. The narrator`s preferred personal pronoun, wagahai, is rarely-to-never used in `real life` in Japan, but survives in fiction thanks to the book, generally for arrogant and pompous anthropomorphized animals. For example, Bowser, the turtle-king enemy in many Mario series video games, uses wagahai, as does Morgana, a cat character in Persona 5.`


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