The Beggar Student

by Osamu Dazai

A fictional thirty-something writer named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher a terrible manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Shortly afterward, while moping around a park in suburban Tokyo, he spots a figure drowning in a nearby aqueduct.

He doesn't want to become a witness to a suicide and eventually decides to flee the park. But as he is leaving, he trips over the boy who had been drowning, and the two begin an unlikely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081123858X
• ISBN13: 9780811238588
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages