吾輩は猫である vs 暁の寺: Which Should You Read?

吾輩は猫である 夏目漱石 · 1905 ★★★★☆ 3.7 475 pages · ≈ 8 h 48 m · Demanding

Written over the course of 1904 through 1906, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it…

暁の寺 三島由紀夫 · 1970 ★★★★☆ 3.8 334 pages · ≈ 6 h 11 m · Moderate

A young man expends his spirit in the obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and a passionate search for mystical enlightenment. "Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The…