Japanese Style Painting: Girl Apprentice
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About This Novel
"We vaguely know the best places we should go, the beautiful places we want to go, and the heights we should strive to reach. We all want to live a good life, and that is the right hope and ambition. We long for an unshakable belief that we can rely on. However, if all of these are to be realized in the girl's life, what will happen? What a lot of effort it takes." This book is a hardcover illustrated commemorative edition of the "Japanese Translation Series" series. It is based on Osamu Dazai's representative "Female Monologue" short story "The Girl's Disciple". It uses exquisite and beautiful pictures to carefully outline the yearning and hesitation of a young girl facing the future, which is extremely delicate and vivid. Do you still remember what you looked like when you were 14? If for a moment you feel that you have been numbed and confused by life, please open this book and regain your vitality.
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Every character reflects himself - About "The Girl Disciple"
Although many characters in Dazai Osamu's works have different identities and experiences, they are actually very similar to himself in writing, such as Ye Zang in "The Disqualification of the World" and the girl in "The Female Disciple". They tend to be melancholy and self-destructive. They are very concerned about their image in the eyes of others. They will disguise themselves and hate themselves. They are almost paranoid in some aspects. In short, they are sensitive and weird. The book spends a lot of space to show the psychology of "I", such as the feeling of being empty in the morning, the disgust for my appearance and myself, the incomprehension of my mother and the sadness of my father's departure... However, among the various negative emotions and even the wish to die, there are also very subtle "survival" and "wanting to get better" psychology. She seems to have been living in the confrontation between the life instinct and the death instinct. That's why she thought, "I want to love everyone." "I want to live a beautiful life." Just like Shi Tiesheng said: "A person who really wants to die will not care about what others say. A person who talks about death, from my experience, actually does not really want to die, but..." "But what?" "But I'm still... Still longing for love..."
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Every character reflects himself - About "The Girl Disciple"
Although many characters in Dazai Osamu's works have different identities and experiences, they are actually very similar to himself in writing, such as Ye Zang in "The Disqualification of the World" and the girl in "The Female Disciple". They tend to be melancholy and self-destructive. They are very concerned about their image in the eyes of others. They will disguise themselves and hate themselves. They are almost paranoid in some aspects. In short, they are sensitive and weird. The book spends a lot of space to show the psychology of "I", such as the feeling of being empty in the morning, the disgust for my appearance and myself, the incomprehension of my mother and the sadness of my father's departure... However, among the various negative emotions and even the wish to die, there are also very subtle "survival" and "wanting to get better" psychology. She seems to have been living in the confrontation between the life instinct and the death instinct. That's why she thought, "I want to love everyone." "I want to live a beautiful life." Just like Shi Tiesheng said: "A person who really wants to die will not care about what others say. A person who talks about death, from my experience, actually does not really want to die, but..." "But what?" "But I'm still... Still longing for love..."
