SchoolGirl

Sobre el libro SchoolGirl de Osamu Dazai publicado por Random UK al 2026:

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 , this collection, newly translated by Polly Barton, is a perfect introduction to Dazais work.