Osamu Dazai
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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. His 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 the casual...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba-the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age-is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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,...
