Osamu Dazai
The Beggar Student

2024 |

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 decid…es 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. 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 Toky…o, 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.

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O knize

Stav:	nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	73
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	081123858X
ISBN:	9780811238588
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	24. 2. 2025 1:0
Číslo položky:	1154356

O autorovi

Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai, rodným jménem Šúji Cušima, japonsky 太宰治 byl japonský spisovatel. Narodil se v rodině bohatého statkáře. Studoval francouzskou literaturu na vysoké škole, ale studium nedokončil. Na škole se prvně pokusil, kvůli školním výsledkům, spáchat sebevraždu. O další sebevraždu se pokusil spolu s vdanou milenkou. Poté si vzal gejšu, načež ho rodina vydědila – ovšem také kvůli jeho angažování se v levicových skupinách. Byl v té době rovněž drogově závislý. I s manželkou se pokusil o sebevraždu . Poté se rozvedli. Následně, v letech 1940-1946, prožil své nejproduktivnější období, kdy vydal řadu knih a dosáhl i jistých úspěchů. Po roce 1946 se však dostal znovu do krize, trpěl alkoholismem i psychickými poruchami. Během této krize napsal jedno ze svých nejúspěšnějších děl, Člověk ve stínu. Poté spáchal sebevraždu, která se mu tentokrát již povedla. Jeho prózy jsou značně autobiografické, až sebestředné, zobrazují ale i sociální konflikty japonské společnosti a bariéry mezi třídami.

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