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The Beggar Student

By Osamu Dazai

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The Beggar Student

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A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just sent his publisher a terrible manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Shortly afterward, while moping around a park in suburban Tokyo, he spots someone drowning in a nearby aqueduct. He doesn't want to become a witness to a suicide and eventually decides to flee the park. But as he is leaving, he trips over the boy who had been drowning, and the two begin an unlikely conversation that turns into an intellectual spat. Hoping to ingratiate himself with the boy-a high-school dropout-Dazai finds himself agreeing to perform in the boy's stead that very night as the live narrator of a film screening... So begins the madcap adventure of The Beggar Student, where there is glamor in destitution, and intellectual one-upmanship reveals glimmers of truth. Replete with settings incorporated into the popular anime Bungo Stray Dogs and with echoes of No Longer Human, this biting novella captures the infamous Japanese writer at his mordant best.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
93
Release Date:
2024-12-10
Publication Date:
2024-12-10
Publisher:
Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
081123858X
ISBN13:
9780811238588
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
98 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
10 cm

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