The Beggar Student

The Beggar Student

Softcover
3.515

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Description

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.

Book Information

Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
Contemporary
Format
Softcover
Pages
93
Price
13.50 €

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4

A short but compelling story about an adult longing for ever lost youth and a bittersweet realization. Of course there are more layers to it, like criticism on society and social roles for instance. As always, Dazai’s stories are less about plot and more about the internal experience of the characters presented. This combined with a raw and dark humored writing style creates his usual melancholic, reflective but somehow still funny reading experience.

3.5

dazai ist verloren in der nostalgie wie wir alle

3

It was okay... nothing too special unlike Dazai's Other books

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