Natsume Soseki really raised a three-flowered cat,

He named the cat "My Generation".

Lu Shi was shocked when he heard it, and thought that the Japanese name of "I Am a Cat" was "我輩は猫である",

Unexpectedly, Natsume Soseki suddenly wanted to create a novel with a cat as the first-person perspective, and the reason was that Lu Shi and Owen discussed the performance method of the experiential school.

Fiction can be associated with performance.

Well, very reasonable.

After raising my generation, Natsume Soseki became a "voyeur",

He followed our generation with a notebook every day, recording the living habits of our generation,

Twenty pages were soon filled.

However, when he picked up the pen to write the book, he always felt that something was wrong, and he held back five words for a long time, and then crossed out again.

That's it

Record, create, cross out,

Record, create, cross out,

Record, create, cross out,

Repeatedly.

Time passed day by day, and finally I got through "Yes! The day of the opening of "The Prime Minister".

……

On December 16,

Sunday.

As Christmas approaches, the streets are gradually immersed in festive cheer, and even the smog that envelops London all day seems to have been diluted.

Lu Shi urged while packing up his things: "Natsume, it's time to go." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a scream from the other side:

"Woooo

Lu Shi rushed over,

"My generation?!"

"It's not me, it's me."

I saw Natsume Soseki sitting on a small four-legged stool,

In front of him, there was a red basin, and my generation was carefully staring at the water in the basin next to him, and from time to time there was a "meow~" sound.

Lu Shi was speechless for a while,

"Big brother, how many times have I told you, don't bathe the cat."

This is a bloody lesson learned in practice.

Lu Shi had experience serving cats before crossing and knew how difficult it was to bathe cats.

That feeling is like a strong X a 200-pound fat man, and it may not be possible to toss for three or five hours.

Lu Shi beckoned,

"Come on. Come, my son. ”

"Meow~"

I kicked Natsume Soseki's face and jumped into Lu Shi's arms.

Natsume Soseki was left with two marks on his face.

He erased the traces of water and said strangely: "I have been recording the habits of my generation for the past few days, and it obviously likes water. ”

Lu Shi was stunned,

"Is there one?"

Natsume Soseki nodded his head,

"Yes. Didn't you notice? We would use our paws to pluck the water in the cup or basin, as if playing. ”

Lu Shi recalled carefully and found that what the other party said seemed to be true.

I have to admit that Natsume Soseki was able to write "I Am a Cat", which must have been fully observed, because the description of the cat's movements in it is vivid, so that the reader has a sense of picture, as if my generation is right in front of him.

Lu Shi said: "Perhaps, the shaking water is very interesting to my generation. ”

Natsume Soseki sighed,

"Then why doesn't it like bathing? Alas...... It's just an unsolved mystery~"

Lu Shi waved his hand,

"Don't think about it, let's go out first."

He put us down,

The little one spun around his feet, then nimbly slipped under the bed.

Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki went out and got into the carriage.

Lu Shi said: "Actually, my generation is already very smart. Ordinary cats can rub feces and urine on their feet and even on their backs, but the little guy is very clean and knows how to find a potty. ”

Natsume Soseki said, "I want to bathe it, it's not that it's not clean." ”

Lu Shi was a little confused,

"Why is that?"

Natsume Soseki smiled embarrassedly,

"I just want to see what my generation looks like when he takes a bath~ Record it, it may be useful in the future. I even thought about a scene where my wife was greedy, licked the wine dish of the master's house, and then fell into the water tank or something. ”

!

Isn't that what I did in "I'm a Cat"?

In the last second, Kushami, Miting, Dongfeng, Duxian and others were still chatting about Hanyue's marriage and talking about women;

In the next second, the cat drowned in the water tank.

It's very much like the end of the web article.

However, "I Am a Cat" originally ended in a hurry, and there is a theory that it was because Natsume Soseki was attacked during the serialization.

Tengdai amateur criticized Natsume Soseki in "Cat Wen Morale Yan Lu":

Either I don't know enough about world literature, and I don't know that there was a work like "The Male Cat Moore's View of Life" a hundred years ago, and "The Male Cat Moore's View of Life" uses the cat's first-person perspective;

Either they are extremely arrogant, knowing that their predecessors have similar works, but they don't mention them in their novels.

On the bright side, this is literary criticism,

In fact, it is a plagiarism accusation.

literati are light,

This is true both ancient and modern, both in China and abroad.

(The Japanese tradition of Imagami is very early.) ）

But if "I Am a Cat" could be written in the UK, there probably wouldn't be that kind of pickling, and the generation in the book wouldn't drown in a water tank.

Lu Shi groaned: "Natsume, why do you want to use cats as the protagonists? ”

Natsume Soseki corrected, "Hmm...... It can't be considered the main character, but the cat is the first person. As for the reason, first of all, I listened to you talk to Sir Owen that day, and I was inspired, and I felt that the sense of substitution is not only a human thing, but also an animal that may be very interesting. ”

Lu Shi said: "Then what about next? ”

Natsume Soseki continues:

"Secondly, Lu, have you ever heard of haiku?"

Lu Shi couldn't help laughing and said, "Natsume, you don't think that haiku is your Japanese, do you?" ”

Natsume Soseki was slightly embarrassed,

Haiku poetry, also known as haiku poetry, humorous poetry, witty poetry, etc., is a poem whose content is mainly humorous, or satirical and ridiculous.

This kind of poetry genre covers poems, songs, and folk songs, and the style is easy to understand, and it is divided into humorous poems, limerick poems, and some miscellaneous poems.

Of course, haiku was introduced to Japan from China.

Natsume Soseki has studied Sinology in depth, and he calls himself a sinologist, so he naturally knows this fact.

He said frankly: "I know that haiku has already appeared in the Zhou Dynasty. It's just that, Lu, in your Qing Dynasty, isn't Hai Harmonic not welcomed? ”

The old men really don't want to see haiku,

But the folk are different.

However, in the feudal era, anything that the official did not want to see would often naturally decline.

Japan, as the successor of haiku, has instead become "orthodox." ”

Lu Shi sighed,

"That's it. I just want to say that I still know about haiku. ”

Natsume Soseki continued, "I read a lot of English books before, and then because of you, I came into contact with Mr. Xiao's plays, as well as your "Yes! Prime Minister", I feel that it can combine haiku literature with European satirical literature. ”

Lu Shi is clear,

If this is the case, the final writing must be both humorous and spicy and satirical. In this way, it is indeed a wise choice to choose the cat as the first-person perspective. ”

Although Lu Shi knew "I Am a Cat" very well before the crossing, it was impossible to know all kinds of thoughts about Natsume Soseki when he was creating.

Now it's clear,

It's also a good talk.

Natsume Soseki said: "It's just that I didn't expect my generation to be so difficult, and I didn't want to take a bath." ”

The topic turned around again.

Lu Shi was speechless,

"Let's just say, is there any other way? Listening to your tone just now, people who don't know still think that you are Schröding...... Forehead...... I thought you were a cat abusist~"

As he spoke, there was a knock at the coachman's door:

Knock Knock –

When Lu Shi lifted the curtains,

"What's wrong?"

The coachman was embarrassed: "Two gentlemen, I'm really embarrassed, I'm afraid I can't walk in front." ”

He pointed in the direction of the main road.

I saw that the door of the Lanxin Theater was crowded into a lump, full of crowded heads.