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I rather expected this book to be a key entry in the small but intriguing genre of "books written by cats." After all, I loved E.T.A. Hofmann's "The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr," and a friend recently gave me "The Dalai Lama's Cat" by David Michie. However, the nameless cat of Natsume Soseki's book, while ostensibly the author, admits somewhere around page 80 that he has become rather more like a person, and less interested in acting like a cat. Indeed, the cat is very much little more than a device to pen satirical comments on the eccentric and self-centered life of a Japanese scholar and his friends and neighbors. Other feline "authors," especially Murr, provide a sense that they want to explore both the nature of feline personalities and those of the attendant humans. Soseki quickly turns into a Japanese version of Wodehouse - poking fun at how silly bourgeois people are. I wish there had been more about the cat!