Colegiala

by Dazai, Osamu

• ISBN13: 9788415578932
• ISBN10: 8415578938
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-01-01
• Publisher: Editorial Impedimenta

Summary

A young girl from a poor family is forced to commit a robbery for love. An elderly woman admits that one night, many years earlier, she was strongly attracted to a man she barely knew. A housewife tells her story of suffering upon discovering that her husband has a mistress. A young writer tells how her life got worse after winning a literary award. These stories included in Schoolgirl deal with tremendous delicacy of the feminist universe as well as its contradictions: shame, unrequited love, incomprehensible death of a loved one, extreme happiness, and, simply, the postwar thoughts that pass through the minds of young Japanese women.

Author Biography

Osamu Dazai is one of the most highly respected modern Japanese authors, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in postwar Japanese literature. His two major novels, No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, continue to be widely read and leave a vibrant legacy for one of Japan's greatest writers.