Schoolgirl Maurice Gee and a precursor to later

and a precursor to later books like Catch-22 and MASH

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who is burdened by a wound acquired in World War I and by his utterly hopeless love for the flamboyantly decadent Lady Brett Ashley

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evocative and unsettling

Schoolgirl Maurice Gee and a precursor to laterEssentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against thema theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese