
文壇を惑乱し、陶酔させた異才。その出発点。 芥川賞受賞の表題作を含む初期短編集。 アメリカン・スクールの見学に訪れた日本人英語教師たちの不条理で滑稽な体験を通して、終戦後の日米関係を鋭利に諷刺する、芥川賞受賞の表題作のほか、若き兵士の揺れ動く心情を鮮烈に抉り取った文壇デビュー作「小銃」や、ユーモアと不安が共存する執拗なドタバタ劇「汽車の中」など全八編を収録。 一見無造作な文体から底知れぬ闇を感じさせる、特異な魅力を放つ鬼才の初期作品集。
American School is a Japanese novel of 155,168 characters, with 9,299 unique words and 1,893 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,299 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.