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A completely new translation of Osamu Dazai's great masterpiece by award-winning translator Juliet Winters Carpenter. "A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist" Damian Flanagan, The Japan Times No L...

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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun&...

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Mine has been a life of much shame. I cant even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazais No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels h...

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This is a superb new translation of the story that propelled one of 20th century Japan's most acclaimed writers into the spotlight. "Schoolgirl" is the novella that first established Dazai as a member of Japan's literary elite. Essential...

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The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Obathe narrator of No Longer Human at a younger ageis being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and ...

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"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 " translator O'Brien excels, his un...

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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...

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"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 HUMANthe #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japantells the story of Yozo Oba, a you...

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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 sur...

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"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, wa...

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The war is over. Japan is defeated. As his country rebuilds, a young man must fight disease and rebuild his life. He will start at a peculiar sanatorium, where everyone gets a nickname, and where he is surrounded by an odd assortment of patients a...

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Detta är en fängslande berättelse om vänskap, uppoffring och uthållighet, där Melos tävlar mot tiden för att rädda sin väns liv

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A 75th-anniversary edition of the classic Japanese novel of alienation and the search for meaning and connection in the modern world, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years-for fans of Salinger, Camus, Sartre, Hesse, and the...

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Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his...

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A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just sent his publisher a terrible manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Shortly afterward, while moping around a park in suburban Tokyo, he spots someone drowning in a nearby aquedu...

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No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when were adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period until then? No one bothers to teach us that. Osam...

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From Wikipedia: The Setting Sun (ae-ue' Shayo) is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. It was published in 1947 and is set in Japan after World War II. Principal characters are the siblings Kazuko and Naoji, and their elderly mother. The story shows a...

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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 sophis...

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"e;I've led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me."e;This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai's masterpiece NO LONGER HUMAN--the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan--tells the story of Yozo Oba, a young ma...

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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."e; Jane Yong Kim, The Atlantic

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Recipient of the 2018 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese TranslationA new, definitive translation of the postwar classic known to the west asNo Longer Humana tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Do...

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Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them-a theme th...

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Osamu Dazai's classic tale retold by Usamaru Furuya is now in a complete omnibus edition! Set in modern-day Tokyo, Dazai's tale details the life of a young man originally from a well-off family from Japan's far north. Yozo Oba is a troubled soul i...

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Another spectacular collaboration from the Maiden's Bookshelf series, this dark and intense fable by the great giant of postward literature is brought to vivid life by contemporary master Nekosuke. Suwa, a charcoal burner's daughter, lives togethe...

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Place: Tsugaru in Aomori Prefecture, Japan Time: Spring 1944 As World War II was coming to an end, Osamu Dazai (born Shuji Tsushima) returned to his home in the northern tip of Honshu, Japan on assignment from a publisher to travel and write about...

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Osamu Dazais No Longer Human ist ein Meisterwerk der japanischen Literatur und Kultbuch. Es wurde durch Verfilmungen und als Manga des berühmten Zeichners Junji Ito zum Millionenseller - und machte den Autor und seinen Protagonisten Yozo zum Idol....

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1946. Plötzlich steht ein grobschlächtiger Kerl in Feldarbeitskluft vor der Tür und behauptet, ein alter Schulfreund zu sein. Der Hausherr, ein namhafter Schriftsteller, in Tokyo mit der Familie ausgebombt und jetzt wieder auf dem Land lebend, kan...

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Pandora's Box is a literary work that combines reality and imagination, exploring the depth of the human soul and the dimensions of the mystery surrounding life and death. The story tells of a young man named Shusuke Kimura, who is going through a...

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