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.
The Beggar Student
€14.90
A failed writer, a drowning boy, and one disastrous choice set off a surreal, razor‑sharp adventure.
Osamu Dazai, ashamed of the awful manuscript he has just submitted, wanders into a Tokyo park only to stumble—literally—into a drowning teenager who derails his day and drags him into an unexpected battle of wits. Trying to impress the sharp‑tongued dropout, Dazai agrees to narrate a film screening in the boy’s place, a decision that propels him into chaos.
What follows is a darkly comic, fast‑paced novella where poverty becomes performance, intellect becomes competition, and truth flickers between satire and sincerity. Echoing No Longer Human and beloved by fans of Bungo_Stray_Dogs, it captures Dazai’s mordant humour and the strange glamour of coming undone.
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- Author: Osamu Dazai
- Language: Angļu valoda
- Year of publication: 2024
- Manufacturer: WW Norton & Co
- Cover type: Soft cover
- Number of pages: 96
- ISBN code: 9780811238588
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