Osamu Dazai
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Osamu Dazai is one of the most famous-and infamous-writers of 20th-century Japan. A Shameful Life (Ningen shikkaku) is his final published work and has become a bestselling classic for its depiction of the tortured struggle of a young man to survive in a world that he cannot comprehend. Paralleling the life and death of Dazai himself, the delicate weaving of fact and fiction remorselessly documents via journals the life of Yozo, a university student...
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Más allá de su fama de enfant terrible y de su marcada inclinación por el suicidio, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) es sin ninguna duda uno de los máximos exponentes de la moderna literatura japonesa. A contracorriente siempre de las normas preestablecidas en una sociedad tan rígida y conservadora como la japonesa, Dazai se convirtió, a pesar de su origen aristocrático, en un auténtico paria. Su existencia estuvo signada por la vergüenza, la perplejidad,...
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Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted writers. Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent. The eleven stories in this collection of Japanese literature present the most fully rounded portrait available...
4) A New Hamlet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet is the consummate tale of an introspective melancholic struggling to come to terms with the world he lives in; it is no surprise, then, that artists like Goethe and Coleridge have identified with this tortured character over the centuries. As one of Japan's most famous and troubled writers, Osamu Dazai, too, offered his own interpretation of Hamlet in his book Shin-Hamlet, or A New Hamlet. This book was published in 1941 during...
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Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records...
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As we edge toward the 75th anniversary of Osamu Dazai's death, much of his masterful prose remains surprisingly unknown to most English language readers. This observational vignette written by a youthful Dazai offers a lovely introduction to the introspective master widely known and loved in Japan.
Translated in Japan by Reiko Seri and Doc Kane of Maplopo, this semi-autobiographical account should serve as a nice introduction to those unaware of...
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Mine has been a life of much shame.I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.Osamu Dazai's immortal―and supposedly autobiographical―work
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2020.
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People who love to laugh must also love to cry. If you are tired of fighting the world, live lightly! ──Repaying despair with a smile, the world-weary youth story── Osamu Dazai’s only light song soaked in hope in his creative career After becoming an adult, the middle-aged Osamu Dazai, an eternal love song for youth. The author Huang Wenju's special essay guide: World-weary A (pseudo) inspirational confession of waste wood-reading "Pandora's...
10) The setting sun
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[2022]
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"This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai's novel has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class,...
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