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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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 Longer Human is the ...

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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" a pe...

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No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're 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. Osa...

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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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"Dazai's best novel [?] focusing on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior." -The New York Times "Carpenter conveys Dazai's discordant voices while sweeping away some of the rhetorical cobwebs of Donald Keene...

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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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"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 unembellished use of lang...

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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, warmongering generals,...

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An adolescent girl narrates her day in an existential masterpiece that explores what it means to be a forming person in a fomenting society. A woman writes a farewell note to her husband, an artist who has driven her away with his counterfeit prof...

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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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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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Here to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai's legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English. Beginning with "Memories" (which tells a tale of teenage love, based on th...

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"e;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."e; Andrew Martin, The New York Times"e;A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan'...

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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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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 ...

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A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in English & 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 Wa...

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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 growing up ...

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