Osamu Dazai - Böcker

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. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels...

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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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The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium 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 an...

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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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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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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 wife...

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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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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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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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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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Osamu Dazai is one of the most famousand infamouswriters 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...

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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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"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 young man...

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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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... 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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Max blöja är en barnbok av Barbro Lindgren om en bebis vid namn Max som bär blöja. Boken lär barn om pott-träning, självständighet och att växa upp. Med enkel språk och färgglada illustrationer är Max blöja en älskad klassiker som har uppskattats ...

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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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Collection of Osamu Dazai''s Works (Series) contains six most famous short and medium stories by Osamu Dazai:No Longer Human, Setting Sun, Pandora''s Box, Wife of Villon, Cherry and Run, Mellos!No Longer Human (1948) is the most outstanding litera...

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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 important work. No Longer Human means disqualificati...

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