Dazai Osamu - Böcker

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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 ...

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A new translation of one of the greatest works of postwar Japanese literature, acutely capturing modern anxiety and alienation.Osamu Dazai is one of the most famousand infamouswriters of 20th-century Japan.A Shameful Life (Ningen Shikkaku) is his ...

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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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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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"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 "A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, J...

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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 masterpiece. Set in the aftermath of World War Two...

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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 HUMAN--the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan--tells the story of Yozo Oba, a...

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Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands ...

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A glimpse into the humorous, sardonic world of Dazai Osamu, presenting a new and very different look at a one of the recognized masters of Japanese, and indeed global, literature. These works from the middle years of his brief career show a skille...

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... Ben hala, ölmeyi bile becerememis utanmaz, aptal bir hayaletten, yasayan bir cesetten baska bir sey degildim. Yirminci yüzyil Japon edebiyatinin önde gelen yazarlarindan, siradisi hayatiyla da meshur Osamu Dazai, intiharindan hemen önce tamaml...

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The content of this book includes: Human Disqualification, Wife of Weiyong, Yin Huo, Full Wish, Migratory Birds, King of Heart, Autumn Wind, Story of Snowy Night, Beautiful Man and Cigarette, Run! Melles.

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The Setting Sun (1947) is a very important work in the post-war literary world of Japan, and it has created a record of the best selling of post-war literary works. The word "e;setting sun clan"e; is widely known as the pronoun of the decl...

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