I Am A Cat (excerpt): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

I Am A Cat (excerpt), credited to Sōseki Natsume, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of I Am A Cat (excerpt) by Sōseki Natsume. (Translated by Kan-ichi Ando.) Read in English by Peter Eastman. These are the first two chapters of Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece, "I Am A Cat" (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a landmark of modern Japanese literature, with its humorous but insightful depiction of society as seen through the eyes of a cat. The full work was published in serial form, in ten installments, in 1905-1906. Soon after, Kan-ichi Ando published an English translation of the first two chapters. Sadly, there is no translation of the full work in the public domain, but because of its episodic structure, this excerpt can easily stand on its own. - Summary by Peter Eastman

Recording facts

• Recording title: I Am A Cat (excerpt)
• Author credits: Sōseki Natsume
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 5
• Listed recording duration: 3:20:19

Catalogue topics

• Japan
• cat
• Meiji
• excerpt

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 48:01
2. 02 - Chapter 2 (part 1) — 35:48
3. 03 - Chapter 2 (part 2) — 35:19
4. 04 - Chapter 2 (part 3) — 38:38
5. 05 - Chapter 2 (part 4) — 42:33

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