For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer.A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a river in a nearby park in suburban Tokyo, he meets a high-school dropout and the two get into an intellectual spat. Eventually, Dazai finds himself agreeing to perform in the boy’s place 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 glimmerings of truth in intellectual one-upmanship. Replete with settings straight out of the popular anime Bungo Stray Dogs and echoes of the themes in No Longer Human, this biting novella captures the infamous Japanese writer at his mordant best.
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The Beggar Student
By Osamu Dazai
For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer.A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a river in a nearby park in suburban Tokyo, he meets a high-school dropout and the two get into an intellectual spat. Eventually, Dazai finds himself agreeing to perform in the boy’s place 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 glimmerings of truth in intellectual one-upmanship. Replete with settings straight out of the popular anime Bungo Stray Dogs and echoes of the themes in No Longer Human, this biting novella captures the infamous Japanese writer at his mordant best.
Popular Reviews(2)
Reviewed by ZessEin wohl perfektes Beispiel für die Ansicht, Autor und Werk nicht zu trennen. Bei Dazai verschmilzt seine Realität mit Fiktion. Wer sich mit seinem Biografie auseinander setzt, findet immer wieder etwas von ihm in seinen Charakteren - zum Besseren oder zum Schlechten ist dabei Ansichtssache. In dieser kurzen Geschichte über die Kluft zur eigenen Jugend und die Erwartungen an die jeweils anderen Generationen merkt man seine eigene Labilität besonders. Mal voller Selbstmitleid, mal überschwänglich. Ein kurzer Einblick in so menschliche Hoffnungen, die durch das Fehlen eines eigenen Antriebes niemals vorankommen und die Spirale, in die es einen wirft.
Reviewed by Jay734Eine süße kleine Geschichte über Stolz, Kind bleiben und Umgang mit selbstkritischen Einstellungen, wobei der Hauptcharakter auf jedenfall in die negative, selbstbemittleidende Richtung fällt.