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Original Title:	女生徒
ISBN:	1935548085 (ISBN13: 9781935548089)
Edition Language:	English

Schoolgirl

Osamu Dazai

Paperback | Pages: 103 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 1803 Users | 230 Reviews

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Title	:	Schoolgirl
Author	:	Osamu Dazai
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 103 pages
Published	:	October 15th 2011 by One Peace Books (first published July 20th 1939)
Categories	:	Cultural. Japan. Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Short Stories. Classics. Novella. Asia

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Mornings are torture.

Glasses are like ghost

Words don’t come easy out of your mind and those exact ones which may express what we actually feel are even harder to come by; to have congruity between our thoughts and our words is a rare skill. However, one may not able to put forth the exact words but one may use simple, harmless, docile words to create an atmosphere of enigma to express one’s feelings. It may sound quite simple but had it been so then we might not have been reading Dazai. Schoolgirl is the Dazai’s second book which I read after No Longer Human. We don’t necessarily have a preamble to a book/ its review but it often adds a depth and understanding that is otherwise impossible. Well, in case of Osamu Dazai an introduction might be of great help since he belongs to those authors who write to express their thoughts and feelings per se; his understanding of human psychology, feelings of different stages of human life is second to none. And his own life – his troublesome life, drug addictions, and suicide attempts- adds semi-autobiographical traits to his works and Schoolgirl is no exception here, even though when narrator of the book is a girl. The reader may not be able to get away with an inevitable feeling that Osamu Dazai is perhaps not only the story teller but also a participant here- as it is the case with most of the books by Dazai. The themes woven into the woof and weft of his literary tapestries were so obviously cut from the fabric of his life that even when he assumed the guise of a mawkish female schoolgirl, readers have no trouble seeing through the flimsy veneer. The close connection between Dazai’s life and almost any of his works is immediately apparent, although as an artist he naturally did not confine himself to a mere recounting of autobiographical details. Schoolgirl depicts the story of a young girl who seems to be in conflict with not only her class but also with her emotions, which are so often juxtaposed with how she is supposed to behave.




The novella is uninterrupted stream-of-consciousness monologue by a bourgeois high school student who has lost her father and lives alone with her mother. Almost three-quarters of a century later, its prescience seems eerie; hardly anything about this book seems to have aged, least of all the narrator herself, who is perfectly preserved somewhere along the road to adolescence. The book is immensely simple in construction but this brevity facilitates great imagery throughout the pages. Each section that you read and each page you turn makes you recall, considering the subtext and noteworthiness of apparently disposable remarks- such is the impact of the dialect of Dazai, which is so unique to him-extremely basic but then can't be imitated.

It would be an futile exercise to describe plot of the book to any degree, as the novella appears as a day-in-the-life, stream-of-consciousness, like a broadened journal section, where the youthful hero starts by discussing certain occasions that have impacted her life, for example, the war and the demise of her dad, just to then be diverted some minor detail giving us a look into her mind. The narrator of the novella jumps around strong feelings in one paragraph and then contradicting them in the next which represents the mindset of a teenage girl. She goes on to touch upon seemingly mundane topics such as her dogs, movies she likes, her teacher, and the garden around her house. But all these humble happenings represent her feelings towards life- the melancholy she is in to. The narrator describes herself with the self-loathing characteristic of all Dazai narrators, the characteristic which is also akin to Dazai himself. She is an eccentric storyteller, given to flights of favor and sudden emotional episodes; her internal mind is indiscreet and creative, however one would realize that as one progresses through the book, focus of the narrator shifts upon the more pressing or ‘actual questions’ about life and her place in it, the questions which really matter in life and the questions which perhaps haunted Dazai too.

I would have been happy if he ever whined or lost his temper or acted selfish, but he never did.

We observe an abyss in her consciousness, for she is fully aware of her flaws and limitations yet she always imagines for something extraordinary and genuine. She wants to live an authentic existence but she doesn’t have anything to offer. The absurdity of teenage is peculiar to twentieth century’s literature- we have other examples such as A Clockwork Orange and The Catcher in the Rye which deals with the problem of adolescence but Schoolgirl has perhaps a different treatment to teenage in way that the narrator wants to live life on her own- as non-conformist- but her angst remains inside her unlike the narrator of other books mentioned here. The existential tension of the narrator remains unborn in her womb and the narrator lives an inauthentic form of existence which gives birth to extreme loathing of the narrator towards herself. However, despite an underlying sadness there is also a great deal of optimism in this novella.

May be something good would happen today.

The body had no connection to my mind, it developed on its own accord, which was unbearable and bewildering. It made me miserable that I was rapidly becoming an adult and that I was unable to do anything about it.

The truth is that I secretly love what seems to be my own individuality, and I hope I always will, but fully embodying it is another matter. I always want everyone to think I am a good girl. Whenever I am around a lot of people, it is amazing how obsequious I can be. I fib and chatter away, saying things I don't want to or mean in any way. I feel like it is to my advantage to do so.

Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to go to sleep believing that it will surely come, tomorrow it will come.


Schoolgirl is a significant piece of postwar literature in that it questions and problematizes some serious intellectual issues on power, gender and national identity, yet it manages to do so in a completely accessible way. It was the work which conveyed Dazai's written universe to the cutting edge of the abstract world in post-war Japan. Inside its pages can be discovered the social mores of this period ever, where young ladies in Japan were all the while ending up in organized relational unions. The young lady in the story stresses over being constrained into marriage to a more established man who she doesn't love. The narrator is in the process of discovering herself and Dazai's chronicle of her shifting emotional states is masterful. The book captures thinly veiled self-loathing, zany angst, wild mood swings, and "sublime nihility'' of Dazai in a way that speaks to the disaffected youth in us all. It’s this strange mix of social critique, capricious daydreams, and haunting biographical references that make Schoolgirl such a potent work, though like any other works by Dazai this novella may also be emotionally disturbing- as it might leave you with a strange of hollowness and emotional exhaustion as if you have become numb towards outer world; nevertheless could be an enriching experience for someone who wants to delve into deep abyss of human emotions.

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Almost more a short story than even a novella, but still a dense and powerful work. I have been inspired to read more of his novels and most definitely understand why he is such a cult favorite in Japan.

Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty.What is this book? A teenage girl eats breakfast, goes to school, eats dinner, goes to sleep. A short and tense day in the life of unrelenting bleakness. I yearned for everything long gone.Shes just a kid. Shes a hypocrite. Shes bleeding. Shes drowning. She hates everyone, she wishes for everything. The world revolts her, but the world is beautiful, but the world is sad, but the world is glittering and peaceful. But the world is pain. Our

Schoolgirl...Plastic Girl...Schoolgirl...Plastic Girl...The books were intertwined in my head. Perhaps because they both echoed the same theme and their styles were not very different: no plot, only collection of thoughts. And I admired Dazai's ability to portray the mind of a teenage girl. Really, how can you dislike these fragile-naive-self hatred-(and finally) self acceptance qualities? ..."I want to love everyone," I thought, almost tearfully. If you stare at the sky, it changes little by

Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again.Twenty thousand winks under the sea. Twenty thousand plus one stars above twinkling their twinkle little star how I wonder who you are. The house plants are not safe except for the fuchsias that are more easily drawn towards the dark than to the light (groans). Mary had all of her little lambs to count to quite contrarily not go to sleep. Tug on the fishing line as if it were a morse code

Emotionally disturbing yet hypnotizing and such an agreeable read. It is only the third book by Dazai that I have read, and it has leaved me, as No Longer Human and The Setting Sun did, aching for more. It makes me want to kiss a dog, to look up to the sky and fill myself with the beauty of nature. It makes me feel thankful for the liberties I have and that I am not the narrator; her distress is not mine, I only got to share it with her for a short, haunting voyage.

I'm crying this was one of the most accurate descriptions of being a teenage girl I've read !! Pls read this!!

4.5 - Very relatable.