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Short Story

by 太宰治

( 19 ratings, 3 reviews )

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[DeepL Translation - needs review] A short story by Osamu Dazai, a novelist of the early Showa period and representative of the "Muyori-ha" or "New Caricature School" of doomed writers. It first appeared in "Josei" [1942]. It is about "I," a 20-year-old daughter, who waits every day on the platform of a small provincial train station for someone she does not even recognize herself. The story is told in the first-person monologue of "I" from beginning to end, and in particular, the author ski...

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spaghettimansays

September 6, 2023

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Normally I don't do much stock in listicles, but I found a really good list of things for people who want to learn by reading and it seemed a lot more in-depth and well crafted than you usually get from list articles, so I took note and decided to try this short story which was one of the shorts they recommended, here's the link if anyone wants it: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/japanese/learn-japanese-by-reading/#toc_1

This is a very short little vignette about a woman sitting at a train station

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Athakaspensays

June 5, 2022

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A good way to see if Dazai is for you

I read this because it's free and only 6 pages long, and you should too. Osamu Dazai is an iconic Japanese author I've been wanting to read for awhile so this was a good first introduction. The story is about a young woman waiting at a train station and it's quite atmospheric. It's more about the mood than the physical situation. It uses slightly older language than you'll find in modern Japanese, but it's more familiar than early 1900's works like Natsume Soseki's.

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catsays

May 2, 2022

I've read a handful of short stories by 太宰 and this was by far the easiest. It has little in the way of old grammar and the vocabulary is neither extensive nor extremely old fashioned. That said, I somehow landed it at 26 (as of May 2022) and feel it's probably closer to the 28-30 range for "comfortable" reading, but regardless I don't think it will prove too much for anyone who can read modern novels. It's only about 6 pages long as well, so not a huge time investment.

Plot wise, it's a poetic

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eefararated

March 21, 2023

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