{"product_id":"the-beggar-student-9780811238588","title":"The Beggar Student","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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… \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins the madcap adventure of \u003cem\u003eThe Beggar Student\u003c\/em\u003e, where there is glamor in destitution and glimmerings of truth in intellectual one-upmanship. Replete with settings straight out of the popular anime \u003cem\u003eBungo Stray Dogs\u003c\/em\u003e and echoes of the themes in \u003cem\u003eNo Longer Human\u003c\/em\u003e, this biting novella captures the infamous Japanese writer at his mordant best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780811238588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: New York, United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 20.6(H)x13.2(L)x0.8(W)98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 98\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eThe author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.  Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. His translation of Yukio Mishima’s Star won the 2019–2020 Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eDazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self-described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe.--Patti Smith\u003cbr\u003eWhat I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide.--Yukio Mishima","brand":"Osamu Dazai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48745878552793,"sku":"9780811238588","price":21.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/51Q9pU9VNML._SL1200_eed8aec0-fe77-4a29-a055-5e31777c861d.jpg?v=1779869311","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-beggar-student-9780811238588","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}