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Schoolgirl
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Author: Osamu Dazai
ISBN: 9780241767054
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Publish date: 16 July 2026
Pages: 128
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Subjects: Fiction, Classics, Short Stories (single author), Women, World Literature, Japan
An adolescent girl narrates her day in an existential masterpiece that plumbs the depths of what it means to be a forming person in a fomenting society. A woman writes a farewell note to her husband, an artist who has driven her away with his counterfeit profundity and naked ambition. A plain young woman steals a bathing suit for a handsome friend, only to find herself ostracised by her neighbours for her boy-crazed behaviour - and her refusal to be shamed.
These six stories by Osamu Dazai are among his finest. Written during the Second World War, into a period of intense nationalism, they unpick the concept of the patriotic, productive or moral self. Including the novella 'Schoolgirl', which rocketed Dazai to fame on initial publication in 1939, this collection, newly translated by Polly Barton, is a perfect introduction to Dazai's work.
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