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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780811238588
  • ISBN-10: 081123858X
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: December 2024
  • Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
  • Page Count: 96

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