About This Novel
"A Good Couple" describes the trivial life between the capable geisha Choko and the swinger Rageyoshi. The author uses extremely calm writing to fictionalize the extremely ordinary and trivial real life of a couple. In the novel, eating, drinking, urinating, birth, old age, illness and death are equally important. The seemingly blabbering contains the beauty of disillusionment and sadness that makes people unable to put it down. The living conditions of the common people are nothing more than this, a place full of chicken feathers, desolate and happy. This book also includes many novels such as "The Good Couple", "The Smell", "Lose", "Seamless", "Nostalgia", "Fireflies", "Luminous Insects", etc., All of which are wonderful works by Oda Sakunosuke. In this publication, in addition to correcting some mistranslations and omissions in the previous edition, the author also added an additional chapter "The Good Couple", which satisfies the regret that "The Good Couple" did not have an ending. This article was newly discovered in Japan in 2007 in Oda Sakunosuke's manuscript, and this time it is translated into Chinese for the first time. I don't think anyone understands Oda-kun's sorrow more deeply than I do... Well done, Oda-kun! --Dazai Osamu
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