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No One Knows

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Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai's fabled career, some never before seen in EnglishNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period until then? No one bothers to teach us that. Osamu Dazai was a master raconteur who plumbed—in an addictive, easy style—the absurd complexities of life in a society whose expectations cannot be met without sacrificing one's individual ideals on the altar of conformity. The gravitational pull of his prose is on full display in these stories. In "Lantern," a young woman, in love with a well-born but impoverished student, shoplifts a bathing suit for him—and ends up in the local newspaper indicted as a crazed, degenerate communist. In "Chiyojo," a high-school girl shows early promise as a writer, but as her uncle and mother relentlessly...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18390491
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
New Directions
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9780811239332
ISBN:
9780811239349, 9780811239332

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