駈込み訴え
太宰治
Heed My Plea
駈込み訴え
太宰治 · Japanese
A man bursts in before an official and denounces his teacher, and the entire work is that speech.
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A man bursts in before an official and denounces his teacher, and the entire work is that speech. He praises the man, protests his devotion, itemises the humiliations he has swallowed, and swings between worship and hatred without pausing for breath. The listener never speaks. Dazai withholds the speaker's name until the last line, and the confession rearranges itself the moment you have it.
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太宰治
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was a Japanese novelist known for narrators who confess more than they mean to. No Longer Human and The Setting Sun made him one of the defining voices of postwar Japan. His life was marked by repeated suicide attempts, the last of them successful, and his work is read as inseparable from it.
Heed My Plea
駈込み訴え
太宰治 · Japanese
A man bursts in before an official and denounces his teacher, and the entire work is that speech.
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Original (Japanese)
駈込み訴え 太宰治 申し上げます。申し上げます。旦那さま。あの人は、酷い。酷い。はい。厭な奴です。悪い人です。ああ。我慢ならない。生かして置けねえ。 はい、はい。落ちついて申し上げます。あの人を、生かして置いてはなりません。世の中の仇です。はい、何もかも、すっかり、全部、申し上げます。私は、あの人の居所を知っています。すぐに御案内申します。ずたずたに切りさいなんで、殺して下さい。あの人は、私の師です。主です。けれども私と同じ年です。三十四であります。私は、あの人よりたった二月おそく生れただけなのです。たいした違いが無い筈だ。人と人との間に、そんなにひどい差別は無い筈だ。それなのに私はきょう迄あの人に、どれほど意地悪くこき使われて来たことか。どんなに嘲弄されて来たことか。ああ、もう、いやだ。堪えられるところ迄は、堪えて来たのだ。怒る時に怒らなければ、人間の甲斐がありません。私は今まであの人を、どんなにこっそり庇ってあげたか。誰も、ご存じ無いのです。あの人ご自身だって、それに気がついていないのだ。いや、あの人は知っているのだ。ちゃんと知っています。知っているからこそ、尚更あの人は私を意地悪
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Pagera Editor's Note
A man bursts in before an official and denounces his teacher, and the entire work is that speech. He praises the man, protests his devotion, itemises the humiliations he has swallowed, and swings between worship and hatred without pausing for breath. The listener never speaks. Dazai withholds the speaker's name until the last line, and the confession rearranges itself the moment you have it.
Author
太宰治
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was a Japanese novelist known for narrators who confess more than they mean to. No Longer Human and The Setting Sun made him one of the defining voices of postwar Japan. His life was marked by repeated suicide attempts, the last of them successful, and his work is read as inseparable from it.
駈込み訴え
太宰治
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