No One Knows

Download This dazzling collection from Dazai comprises all the ‘soliloquies’ he wrote from the perspectives of women. Taken together, they convey a startling breadth of emotion… On the exterior, most of the women characters are silent and submissive presences—dutiful wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers. The juxtaposition between how the world sees them and how they see the world lends an urgent sense of revolt to their freewheeling monologues. Dazai’s spectacular collection sings with resounding truths.

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