{"product_id":"the-beggar-student-9780811238588","title":"The Beggar Student","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Osamu Dazai\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World Literature - Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45117104291991,"sku":"9780811238588","price":894.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780811238588.webp?v=1769206424","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-beggar-student-9780811238588","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}