Osamu Dazai (1909–48) retains an enormous following today. He is as famous for his darkly introspective novels as for the light-hearted children’s stories that are a staple of many Japanese textbooks. His novel Shayo has been published in English as The Setting Sun. Son of a wealthy family in northern Japan, Dazai was a top student who showed an early penchant for literary writing. He led a troubled, unstable life and suffered from drug abuse and alcoholism; he attempted suicide and had numerous affairs, even as his literary fame grew. A Shameful Life is said to be a close approximation of his lifestyle and struggles. The protagonist in the novel survives, but shortly after publication of A Shameful Life, Dazai and his lover drowned themselves in the Tamagawa Canal in western Tokyo.
Mark Gibeau is a literary translator and scholar of postwar Japanese literature. His previous translations include fiction by Yasunari Kawabata, Jun’ichirô Tanizaki, Shûgorô Yamamoto, Sakumi Tayama, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Sakyô Komatsu among others. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, Canberra.
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Osamu Dazai: Crackling Mountain and Other Stories
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 o …
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Osamu Dazai: A Shameful Life
Recipient of the 2018 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic known to the west as No Longer Human—a tortured vi …
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Osamu Dazai: Joseito
Una calda mattina d’estate, una giovane si sveglia sopraffatta dalle proprie malinconiche speculazioni. Nonostante la bella giornata, i pensieri cupi l’assalgono per tutto il giorno, svelandone la fr …
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Osamu Dazai: New Hamlet
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 ha …
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Osamu Dazai: Gezeichnet
Eines der meistgelesenen japanischen Bücher des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Ein Schriftsteller entschließt sich, drei Notizhefte, die ihm zugespielt worden sind, zu veröffentlichen. Es sind die hinterl …
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Osamu Dazai: The Setting Sun
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, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition f …
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Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human
The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. Mine has been a life …
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Osamu Dazai: La felicidad de la familia
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 cont …
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Edgar Allan Poe & William Shakespeare: 10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 3
This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dos …
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Osamu Dazai: Colegiala
Una chica joven, de familia pobre, se ve obligada a cometer un robo por amor. Una mujer mayor confiesa que una noche, muchos años atrás, se sintió fuertemente atraída por un hombre al que apenas cono …
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Osamu Dazai: Early Light (Storybook ND Series)
Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai’s genius: the title story relates his misad …
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Osamu Dazai: The Flowers of Buffoonery
For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No L …
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Osamu Dazai: Reading Guide and Test Center of Must-Read Classics
This book contains many representative works of Osamu Dazai, such as No Longer Human, Goodbye, Wife of Weiyong, Sunset, Snowy Night, Beautiful Men and Smoke, etc. And No Longer Human is his most impo …
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Osamu Dazai: Declínio de um homem
A curta passagem pela vida do escritor japonês Osamu Dazai — suicidou-se aos 38 anos de idade — não o impediu de se transformar num autor bastante popular. Declínio de um homem, editado pela primeira …
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Osamu Dazai: Setting Sun
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai portrays the decline of an aristocratic family against the backdrop of a chaotic and melancholic Japan after World War II. The story revolves around a mother and daught …
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Osamu Dazai: Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human
‘I’ve led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me.’ This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai’s masterpiece NO LONGER HUMAN–the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan–te …
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Osamu Dazai: Self-Portraits: Stories
Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best—and worst “Art dies the moment it acquires a …
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Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human
The Cult Classic That Captures the Stress of Social Alienation… The Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai wrote, better than almost anyone, about the thin line between isolation and belonging.’ — Jane Yong K …
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Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human
Osamu Dazais No Longer Human. Bekenntnisse eines Gezeichneten ist ein Meisterwerk der japanischen Literatur und Kultbuch. Es wurde durch Verfilmungen und als Manga des berühmten Zeichners Junji Itō z …
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Osamu Dazai: Osamu Dazai’s The Setting Sun
A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in manga for the first time! This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai’s classic novel, often considered his masterp …
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Osamu Dazai & Karen Kazue Kawana: MULHERES
A vida do escritor japonês Osamu Dazai foi muito conturbada. Envolveu-se com gueixas, foi expulso de casa, viciou-se em álcool e morfina, tentou o suicídio diversas vezes, acabou suicidando-se. Por c …
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Osamu Dazai: Real Osamu Dazai
‘Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras.’ —Andrew Martin, The New York Times Best-known …
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Osamu Dazai: The Beggar Student
For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer. A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mai …
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