I Am a Cat (1)

I loved the introduction by Nick Bradley (the translator of the version I read). It also gives context for some of the choices he's made while translating, such as how the cook and the rickshaw mans wife talk. It also really does give so much context to why there are so many Japanese books featuring cats. Like I love knowing that! It also does highlight some interesting aspects of Japanese society at the time; how things are in flux; with an older woman keeping her cat like a child and giving it a spiritual burial. How this teacher and his companions seem to ape western literature just to seem more sophisticated. How they talk endlessly and say nothing of sense and how these friends are needlessly cruel to each other and their partners.