The confession of an "inferior" person is perhaps the most famous work by Dajia Osamu, one of the greatest Japanese writers of modern times, written in the genre of "watakushi-sesetsu" ("a novel about myself"). It is believed that this text is a kind of autobiography of the writer, in which he tells not about the vicissitudes of his life, but about the painful wanderings of his ego. The epithet "inferior" is not in vain taken in quotation marks. The spiritual vivisection to which the protagonist of the story exposes himself unexpectedly highlights both the falsity of the surrounding society and the incomprehensible ability of "full-fledged" people to lie without fear of consequences for an inferior person. The hero's simple-minded confidence in his inferiority becomes less and less convincing to the reader as he reads.