write for the drawer

Verb

To write a work for posterity and/or friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.

Japanese Meaning

後世や友人のために、一般には公表できない（地下出版的な形態でしか発表できない）作品を書く行為。

What is this buttons?

Many authors write for the drawer, hoping future readers will someday find and cherish their unpublished manuscripts.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

多くの作家は後世のために書き、いつの日か未来の読者が未発表の原稿を見つけて大切にしてくれることを願っています。

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Sense（1）

To write a work for posterity and/or friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.

It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers who wrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

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writes for the drawer

（ present singular third-person ）

writing for the drawer

（ participle present ）

wrote for the drawer

（ past ）

written for the drawer

（ participle past ）

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