Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
5678
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2025
Verlag
Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
275
Maße (L/B/H)
20,2/13,2/1,9 cm
Gewicht
272 g
Farbe
Messing
Übersetzt von
Ralph McCarthy
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8112-3933-2
No 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 push her to pursue a literary career, she must ask herself: is this what I really want? Or am I supposed to fulfill their own frustrated ambitions? In "Shame," a young reader writes a fan letter to a writer she admires, only to find out, upon visiting him, that he's a bourgeoise sophisticate nothing like the desperate rebels he portrays, and decides (in true Dazai style): "Novelists are human trash. No, they're worse than that; they're demons. . . They write nothing but lies."
This collection of 14 tales-a half-dozen of which have never before appeared in English-is based on a Japanese collection of, as Dazai described them, "soliloquies by female narrators." No One Knows includes the quietly brilliant long story "Schoolgirl" and shows the fiction of this 20th-century genius in a fresh light.
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“I yearned for everything long gone.”
Those short stories are full of love, sadness, and melancholy, just like the Dazai style you are used to when you read a lot from him. It's a big pond of beautiful, sometimes devastating, but also relatable stories written from the perspective of a woman. The story that really stuck in my head was Schoolgirl. I read it before, and now again, it's a truly relatable story of a young girl who has a lot going on in her head. And all the stories show the beauty and general standards of women at those times perfectly. But sometimes the stories get a bit repetitive, so I had to put the book down after two chapters so it doesn't bore me too much.
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