| dazai osamu writing style: No Longer Human 太宰治, 1958 A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage. |
| dazai osamu writing style: No Longer Human Usamaru Furuya, Osamu Dazai, 2012 This final volume of the critically acclaimed series, reveals Yozo Ohba's quick and tragic demise. After what appears to be a brief period of marital bliss from the budding cartoonist, a shocking revelation reopens deep emotional wounds leading him towards reclusion and eventual self destruction. A modern classic which explores the mind of an alienated man who feels he is a spectator in his own life. Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya has breathed new life into the classic with his beautiful graphic art. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Crackling Mountain and Other Stories Osamu Dazai, 2012-04-10 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 sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent. The eleven stories in this collection of Japanese literature present the most fully rounded portrait available of a tragic, multifaceted genius of modern Japanese letters. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Akutagawa and Dazai James O'Brien, 2004-12-01 Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) is a key figure in modern Japanese literature. He is renowned for the intellectual play and superb craft of his numerous tales. Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was the most distinctive writer to emerge from wartime Japan. His passion and brilliance combined to create a uniquely gifted storyteller. This rich selection of tales illustrates the range of their talents, and illuminates the similarities and differences between these great writers. Translator James O'Brien, an expert in the work of Akutagawa and Dazai, provides an incisive introduction to both writers. Published by the Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, in association with Kurodahan Press |
| dazai osamu writing style: Setting Sun, The Osamu Dazai, 1981 This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis in the early postwar years probes the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of this book, often considered Dazai's masterpiece, made the term 'people of the setting sun' -- the declining aristocracy -- a permanent part of the Japanese language. Dazai's heroine, Kazuko, the strong-willed young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, stands as a symbol of the anomie that pervades so much of the modern world. The distinguished translator Donald Keene has said of the author's work: 'His world...suggest Chekhov or possibly postwar France...but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book.' |
| dazai osamu writing style: Pandora's Box Osamu Dazai, 2022-07-15 The war is over. Japan is defeated. Together with his country, a young man must rebuild his life. To recover from illness, he retreats to a quirky sanatorium in the mountains. At this unusual institution, where everyone gets a nickname, he is surrounded by a delightful ensemble of patients and caregivers. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Early Light Dazai Osamu, 2024-10-28 Early Light (Shinjitsu Ichiro / 真昼の光) by Dazai Osamu is a collection of short stories that highlights the author’s characteristic blend of personal reflection, melancholy, and humor. The stories in this collection often focus on ordinary moments or mundane interactions, revealing deeper emotional and psychological undercurrents. Dazai uses a deceptively simple narrative style to explore themes like human frailty, social alienation, and personal failure. Some of the stories convey a sense of nostalgia, reflecting on fleeting moments of happiness amid life's struggles. Others delve into darker aspects of human nature, consistent with Dazai’s broader body of work. Though less well-known than his major novels (No Longer Human or The Setting Sun), Early Light provides valuable insight into Dazai’s talent for transforming everyday experiences into profound literary reflections. It captures the contradictions of life—joy and sorrow, light and darkness—in ways that resonate deeply with readers. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Self Portraits 太宰治, 1992 A rich boy turned drop-out, a radical turned drug addict, obsessed with self destruction and suicide, Osamu Dazai retains his cult status among Japan's intellectual youth more than forty years after his death. These stories, based on his own experiences and arranged chronologically, provide insight into the sources of Dazai's enduring appeal as well as his art.-- |
| dazai osamu writing style: Schoolgirl Osamu Dazai, 2020-03-19 The novella that first propelled Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan. 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 that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century. |
| dazai osamu writing style: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself Young-ha Kim, 2007-07-02 A “mesmerizing” novel of a love triangle and a mysterious disappearance in South Korea (Booklist). In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same beguiling drifter, Se-yeon, who gives herself freely to both of them. Then, just as they are trying desperately to forge a connection in an alienated world, Se-yeon suddenly disappears. All the while, a spectral, calculating narrator haunts the edges of their lives, working to help the lost and hurting find escape through suicide. When Se-yeon reemerges, it is as the narrator’s new client. Recalling the emotional tension of Milan Kundera and the existential anguish of Bret Easton Ellis, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself is a dreamlike “literary exploration of truth, death, desire and identity” (Publishers Weekly). Cinematic in its urgency, the novel offers “an atmosphere of menacing ennui [set] to a soundtrack of Leonard Cohen tunes” (Newark Star-Ledger). “Kim’s novel is art built upon art. His style is reminiscent of Kafka’s and also relies on images of paintings (Jacques-Louis David’s ‘The Death of Marat,’ Gustav Klimt’s ‘Judith’) and film (Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Stranger Than Paradise’). The philosophy—life is worthless and small—reminds us of Camus and Sartre, risky territory for a young writer. . . . But Kim has the advantage of the urban South Korean landscape. Fast cars, sex with lollipops and weather fronts from Siberia lend a unique flavor to good old-fashioned nihilism. Think of it as Korean noir.” —Los Angeles Times “Like Georges Simenon, [Kim’s] keen engagement with human perversity yields an abundance of thrills as well as chills (and, for good measure, a couple of memorable laughs). This is a real find.” —Han Ong, author of Fixer Chao |
| dazai osamu writing style: Territory of Light Yuko Tsushima, 2019-02-12 From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth “Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” —Foumiko Kometani, The New York Times I was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . . It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable, untethered. As the months come and go and the seasons turn, she must confront what she has lost and what she will become. At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Yuko Tsushima’s Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire, and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time. It won the inaugural Noma Literary Prize. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Blue Bamboo Osamu Dazai, 2000 |
| dazai osamu writing style: In Black and White Jun'ichirō. Tanizaki, 2018-01-09 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When Mizuno notices just before the story is about to be published that this man’s real name has crept into his manuscript, he attempts to correct the mistake, but it is too late. He then becomes terrified that an actual murder will take place—and that he will be the main suspect. Mizuno goes to great lengths to establish an alibi, venturing into the city's underworld. But he finds himself only more entangled as his paranoid fantasies, including a mysterious Shadow Man out to entrap him, intrude into real life. A sophisticated psychological and metafictional mystery, In Black and White is a masterful yet little-known novel from a great writer at the height of his powers. The year 1928 was a remarkable one for Tanizaki. He wrote three exquisite novels, but while two of them—Some Prefer Nettles and Quicksand—became famous, In Black and White disappeared from view. All three were serialized in Osaka and Tokyo newspapers and magazines, but In Black and White was never published as an independent volume. This translation restores it to its rightful place among Tanizaki's works and offers a window into the author's life at a crucial point in his career. A critical afterword explains the novel's context and importance for Tanizaki and Japan's literary and cultural scene in the 1920s, connecting autobiographical elements with the novel's key concerns, including Tanizaki's critique of Japanese literary culture and fiction itself. |
| dazai osamu writing style: A Cup of Rage Raduan Nassar, 2017-01-31 A small, furious masterpiece of dominance and submission, longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize A pair of lovers—a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in Brazil—spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults and scorching cruelty, their sexual adventure turns into a savage power game between two warring egos. This intense, erotic masterpiece—written by one of Brazil’s most highly regarded modernists—explores alienation, arrogance, machismo meltdown, the desire to dominate, and the wish to be dominated. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (light novel) Mizuki Nomura, 2012-12-18 For Tohko Amano, a third-year high school student and self-styled book girl, being the head of the literary club is more than just an extracurricular activity. It's her bread and butter...literally! Tohko is actually a literature-gobbling demon, who can be found at all hours of the day munching on torn out pages from all kinds of books. But for Tohko, the real delicacies are hand-written stories. To satisfy her gourmet tastes, she's employed (rather, browbeaten) one Konoha Inoue, who scribbles away each day after school to satisfy Tohko's appetite. But when another student comes knocking on the literary club door for advice on writing love letters, will Tohko discover a new kind of delicacy? |
| dazai osamu writing style: Return to Tsugaru 治·太宰, 1987 |
| dazai osamu writing style: Modern Japanese Literature Donald Keene, 2013-09 Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise introductions to the writers, as well as a historical introduction by Professor Keene. Includes: Growing Up by Ichiyo, a lyrical story of pre-adolescence in the 90s; Natsume's story of Botchan, an ill-starred and ineffectual Huck Finn; Nagai's The Sumida River; Kokomitsu's Kafkaesque Time; Kawabata's The Mole; Firefly Hunt; a glimpse into Tanizaki's masterpiece Thin Snow; and the postwar work of such writers as Dazai and Mishima. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Bungo Stray Dogs: Wan!, Vol. 7 Sango Harukawa, 2024-04-16 From the chill of winter to the pollen of spring, the Armed Detective Agency has your back year-round as the relaxing tales from the peaceful world of Bungo Stray Dogs continue! Atsushi and Chuuya get stuck in an elevator together, the Port Mafia try to sus out Tachihara’s secret, and the organizations of Yokohama duke it out in a soccer showdown! |
| dazai osamu writing style: Naomi Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 2024-03-16 A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Otogizoshi Osamu Dazai, 2011 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 such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to Oba-san (Grandmother and Grandfather), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the tongue-cut sparrow, and of course Urashima Taro (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious. In spite of the gloom and doom atmosphere always cited in reviews of The Setting Sun and the later No Longer Human, though, Dazai's cutting wit and rich humor are evident in the entire body of his work. His literature depicts the human condition in painfully blunt and realistic terms, but, like life itself, is often accompanied by a smile. |
| dazai osamu writing style: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms Gail Tsukiyama, 2007-09-04 Gail Tsukiyama's The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a powerfully moving masterpiece about tradition and change, loss and renewal, and love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of her powers. It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows early signs of promise at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of Noh theater masks. But as the ripples of war spread to their quiet neighborhood, the brothers must put their dreams on hold—and forge their own paths in a new Japan. Meanwhile, the two young daughters of a renowned sumo master find their lives increasingly intertwined with the fortunes of their father's star pupil, Hiroshi. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Autumn Brocade Teru Miyamoto, 2005 A masterpiece of simplicity and beauty,Kinshuis an epistolary novel by one of Japan's most popular literary authors. Life, death, karma-these interwoven themes form the heart of Teru Miyamoto's lyrical novel in letters,Kinshu: Autumn Brocade, the first work to be published in the U.S. by this internationally acclaimed author. The word kinshu has many connotations-brocade, poetic writing, the brilliance of autumn leaves-and here resonates as a vibrant metaphor for the complex, intimate relationship between Aki and Yasuaki, a divorced and long-estranged couple. Ten years after their divorce, they meet by chance at a mountain resort. In a flood of emotions and memories, Aki initiates a new correspondence, and letter by letter through the seasons, the secrets of their past unfold as they reflect on their present struggles. From a lover's suicide to a father's controlling demands, the story moves seamlessly through their deeply introspective exchanges. What begins as a series of accusations and apologies, questions and excuses, turns into a source of mutual support and healing. |
| dazai osamu writing style: The Elephant Vanishes Haruki Murakami, 2010-08-11 In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display. In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between separate realities—and comes back bearing remarkable treasures. Includes the story Barn Burning, which is the basis for the major motion picture Burning. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Dead Silence S.A. Barnes, 2022-02-08 A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library • One of the Best SFF Books of 2022 (Gizmodo) • One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022 (CrimeReads) • A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction! Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find is shocking: the Aurora, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick search of the ship reveals something isn’t right. Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Messages scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold on to her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate. Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense.” Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| dazai osamu writing style: There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job Kikuko Tsumura, 2020-11-26 _______________ 'Surreal and unsettling' - Observer Cultural Highlight 'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable' - Zeba Talkhani 'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' - Sharlene Teo _______________ A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to an office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end isn't so easy. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly – how did she find herself in this situation in the first place? As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful... _______________ 'An irreverent but thoughtful voice, with light echoes of Haruki Murakami ... the book is uncannily timely ... a novel as smart as is quietly funny' - Financial Times 'Polly Barton's translation skilfully captures the protagonist's dejected, anxious voice and her deadpan humour ... imaginative and unusual' - Times Literary Supplement |
| dazai osamu writing style: The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories Yūko Tsushima, 1997 Eight stories by one of Japan's most important women authors concern the struggles of women in a repressive society. An unwed mother introduces her children to their father . . . A woman confronts the other woman. . . A young single mother resents her children . . . These stories touch on universal themes of passion and jealousy, motherhood's joys and sorrows, and the tug-of-war between responsibility and entrapment. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan Alan Stephen Wolfe, 2014-07-14 Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context of Japanese literary history to provide a fresh view of major texts by this important literary figure. In the process, Wolfe revises Japanese as well as Western scholarship on Dazai and discovers new connections among suicide, autobiography, alienation, and modernization. As shown here, Dazai's writings resist narrative and historical closure; while he may be said to serve the Japanese literary establishment as both romantic decadent and representative scapegoat, his texts reveal a deconstructive edge through which his posthumous status as a monument of negativity is already perceived and undone. Wolfe maintains that cultural modernization pits a Western concept of the individual as realized self and coherent subject against an Eastern absent self--and that a felt need to overcome this tension inspires the autobiographical fiction so prevalent in Japanese novels. Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan shows that Dazai's texts also resist readings that would resolve the gaps (East/West, self/other, modern/premodern) still prevalent in Japanese intellectual life. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima, 2024-10-28 Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his homosexuality, he courts a woman, Sonoko, but this exacerbates his feelings for men. As news of the War reaches Tokyo, Kochan considers the fate of Japan and his place within its deeply rooted propriety. Confessions of a Mask reflects Mishima’s own coming of age in post-war Japan. Its publication in English―praised by Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, and Christopher Isherwood―propelled the young Yukio Mishima to international fame. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Reconciliation Naoya Shiga, 2020-08-06 Reconciliation, published here for the first time in the English language, is an understated masterpiece of the Japanese ‘I novel’ tradition (a confessional literary form). Naoya Shiga’s novella is a quietly devastating reflection on all kinds of reconciliation: from his own familial reunion, to the universal need to reconcile ourselves to the inevitability of ageing, loss and death. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Strange Weather in Tokyo Hiromi Kawakami, 2017-11-01 Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age. Tsukiko, thirty–eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, Sensei, in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him Sensei (Teacher). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love. As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time's passing is marked by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing seasons: from warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms. Strange Weather in Tokyo is a moving, funny, and immersive tale of modern Japan and old–fashioned romance. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Literary Mischief James Dorsey, Douglas Slaymaker, 2010-04-30 Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of his life. Behind that life, and in the midst of those tumultuous times, Ango spoke with a cutting clarity. The essays and translations included in Literary Mischief probe some of the most volatile issues of culture, ideology, and philosophy of postwar Japan. Represented among the essayists are some of Japan's most important contemporary critics (e.g., Karatani K?jin and Ogino Anna). Many of Ango's works were produced during Japan's wars in China and the Pacific, a context in which words and ideas carried dire consequences for both writers and readers. All of the contributions to this volume consider this dimension of Ango's legacy, and it forms one of the thematic threads tying the volume together. The essays use Ango's writings to situate his accomplishment and contribute to our understanding of the potentials and limitations of radical thought in times of cultural nationalism, war, violence, and repression. This collection of essays and translations takes advantage of current interest in Sakaguchi Ango's work and makes available to the English-reading audience translations and critical work heretofore unavailable. As a result, the reader will come away with a coherent sense of Ango the individual and the writer, a critical apparatus for evaluating Ango, and access to new translations of key texts. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Chameleon in a Candy Store Anonymous, 2017-03-14 Anonymous is back with the intoxicating, darkly dangerous, and wildly addictive sequel to his New York Times bestselling debut novel Diary of an Oxygen Thief. Picking up the story where it left off, the controversial protagonist of cult classic Diary of an Oxygen Thief retools his advertising skills to seduce women online. It’s a pursuit that quickly becomes a dangerous fixation, often requiring even more creativity and deception than his award-winning ad campaigns. Dazzling, daunting, and darkly hilarious, this spellbinding sequel is a spectacular indictment of a modern love twisted beyond recognition. This title was previously published as Chameleon on a Kaleidoscope. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Wrong Diarmuid Hester, 2020-06-01 Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has been a punk poet, a queercore novelist, a transgressive blogger, an indie filmmaker—each successive incarnation more ingenious and surprising than the last. Cooper’s unflinching determination to probe the obscure, often violent recesses of the human psyche have seen him compared with literary outlaws like Rimbaud, Genet, and the Marquis de Sade. In this, the first book-length study of Cooper’s life and work, Diarmuid Hester shows that such comparisons hardly scratch the surface. A lively retrospective appraisal of Cooper’s fifty-year career, Wrong tracks the emergence of Cooper’s singular style alongside his participation in a number of American subcultural movements like New York School poetry, punk rock, and radical queercore music and zines. Using extensive archival research, close readings of texts, and new interviews with Cooper and his contemporaries, Hester weaves a complex and often thrilling biographical narrative that attests to Cooper’s status as a leading figure of the American post–War avant-garde. |
| dazai osamu writing style: The Saga of Dazai Osamu Phyllis I. Lyons, 1985 |
| dazai osamu writing style: Bungo Stray Dogs: Wan!, Vol. 2 Sango Harukawa, 2022-07-05 Yokohama may be peaceful, but there’s never a dull moment as the agency enters a dance contestand gathers around to tell spooky stories. However, what if the series took a different path? What if the agency was a patisserie instead? What if Bungo Stray Dogs was about actual dogs? Or most unbelievable of all—what if Chuuya had agrowth spurt? |
| dazai osamu writing style: The Poems of Nakahara Chūya Chūya Nakahara, 1993 Acclaimed English translation of poems by one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan's early modern poets: Nakahara Chuya. Now ranked among the finest Japanese verse of the 20th century, influenced by both Symbolism and Dada, he created lyrics renowned for their songlike eloquence, their personal imagery and their poignant charm. |
| dazai osamu writing style: They Call Me George Cecil Foster, 2019-02-05 A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. |
| dazai osamu writing style: 英文版親指Pの修業時代 Rieko Matsuura, マイケル・エメリック, 2009-08-24 The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P tells the story of Kazumi Mano, a naive twenty-two-year-old who wakes up one afternoon to discover that her big toe has turned into a penis. Her life as an ordinary girl is over, and a rigorous apprenticeship has begun. Kazumi flees her homophobic fiance after he tries to castrate her, and hooks up with a blind pianist with whom she falls in love. Together they join a troupe of sexually deformed and emotionally twisted men and women who tour the country performing sexual freak shows. In the course of her bizarre journey, Kazumi is forced to reconsider what she had always passively accepted: her body, her sexuality, and her life. --Book Jacket. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Audition Ryu Murakami, 2010-01-18 Since the death of his wife seven years ago, documentary maker Aoyama has not dated anyone else. Now even his teenage son, Shige, thinks that he should remarry and his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan: to hold fake film auditions from which, he can choose a new bride. Of the thousands who apply, it is a beautiful ballerina, Yamasaki Asami, who captivates Aoyama. Infatuated by her fragile nature and nervous smile, he ignores his increasing sense of unease, putting aside his doubts about his new love, until it may be too late... In Audition, Ryu Murakami delivers his most subtly disturbing novel yet, confirming him as Japan's master of the psycho-thriller. |
| dazai osamu writing style: Legend of the Master Reiko Seri, Doc Kane, Atsushi Nakajima, 2020-05-24 In this classic tale of tortured ambition and the eventual discovery of artistic enlightenment, Nakajima Atsushi brilliantly blends Confucian and Zen Buddhist thought in a well crafted, cinematic story about an archer on a quest to be the greatest of all time. This Japanese literary masterpiece is the first in Maplopo's Masters of Story collection. A unique gathering of Japanese literature translated into English that highlights some of the most wonderfully diverse stories from Japan's most treasured writers. The next release in the Masters of Story collection is Wind, Light, and the Twenty-Year Old Me from Sakaguchi Ango. |
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Osamu Dazai (太 (だ) 宰 (ざい) 治 (おさむ),Dazai Osamu?) is a member of the Armed Detective Agency and former executive of the underworld organization, the Port Mafia. He has the Ability …
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Dazai Osamu (born June 19, 1909, Kanagi, Aomori prefecture, Japan—died June 13, 1948, Tokyo) was a novelist who emerged at the end of World War II as the literary voice of his time.
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Osamu Dazai (or Dazai Osamu), originally known as Tsushima Shūji, was a Japanese writer who is remembered as one of the most influential 20th-century fiction authors of his country. Many …
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Osamu Dazai (Japanese: 太宰 治, Hepburn: Osamu Dazai) is a fictional character featured in the manga series Bungo Stray Dogs, written by Kafka Asagiri and drawn by Sango Harukawa.
Osamu Dazai: The tragic genius of Japanese literature
Jun 27, 2024 · Osamu Dazai, born Shūji Tsushima in 1909, was one of Japan's most influential and controversial writers of the 20th century. His brutally honest, often autobiographical works …
Osamu Dazai (Author of No Longer Human) - Goodreads
Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most …
Osamu Dazai: A Master of Modern Japanese Literature
Oct 5, 2024 · Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) is one of the greatest writers in modern Japanese literature. His works, deeply marked by autobiography and a reflection on the human …
Osamu Dazai - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Osamu Dazai (19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948), was a Japanese author. Dazai was born Tsushima Shūji in Aomori, northeastern Japan. [1] He is best known for his novels The Setting Sun …
Osamu Dazai - Book Series In Order
Complete order of Osamu Dazai books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Osamu Dazai - The Modern Novel
Osamu Dazai was born Tsushima Shuji in Kanagi in Aomori Prefecture in 1909. His father was the major landowner. Dazai was one of eleven children. As his mother was too weak to look …
He first began writing in the early 1930fs, but he never …
Dazai Osamu was born in 1909 into a wealthy, land-owning family in Aomori, in northern Japan. In the early 1930's, he was a student of ... "Leaves" is from the latter style. This type of writing is …
Dazai's Women: Dazai Osamu and his Female Narrators
Dazai Osamu (born Tsushima Shūji) was a post-WWII writer who wrote a number of works using a female narrator. This thesis research focused on the reasons as to why Dazai may have …
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Schoolgirl - Internet Archive
Written by Osamu Dazai English Translation by Allison Markin Powell English Edition Published by One Peace Books 2011 Printed in the United States One Peace Books 43-32 22nd Street …
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Osamu Dazai (real name Shkji Tsushima) was a prominent Japanese author renowned for his profound impact on 20th-century literature. Among his most celebrated works, such as "The …
The Fiction and Criticism of Sakaguchi Ango: The Rhetoric of ...
often grouped together with Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) and Oda Sakunosuke (1913-1947) as Burai-ha (Decadent faction) writers, a group of writers whose activities carried out through their …
1. Cioran Not-Man
Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human. E-mail: stefan.bolea@gmail.com * ―I was man and I no longer am now…‖ (E.M. Cioran, The Twilight of Thoughts) 1. Cioran’s Not-Man In …
Sange. Fallen Flowers - JSTOR
by DAZAI OSAMU Translated by T. E. SWANN T NTENDING to use the title 'Heroic Death',1 I wrote it down on my copy paper, but it's such a very beautiful expression I began to feel that it …
No Longer Human - Internet Archive
Dazai had the creative artistry of a great cameraman. His lens is often trained on moments of his own past, but thanks to his brilliant skill in composition and selection his photographs are not …
No Longer Human - Archive.org
Dazai had the creative artistry of a great cameraman. His lens is often trained on moments of his own past, but thanks to his brilliant skill in composition and selection his photographs are not …
Who Are You to Speak in My Name? Authors, Translators, and …
the style of a famous Japanese author to make him speak about me, Dazai Osamu. I, suffering from a loss of the self, cannot utter a single word about myself without borrowing the voice of …
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Sakaguchi Ango, Decadence and a (Post-metaphysical)
and Dazai Osamu (1909-1948), Ango gained fame for two provocative essays on the theme of daraku or "decadence" - "Darakuron" and "Zoku darakuron" - published in 1946, in the wake of …
Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, …
industrial society. Though Osamu Dazai died a suicide in 1948, the influence of this. book, often considered his masterpiece, has made the term "people of the setting sun" (i.e., the declining …
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Japanese Literature in English Translation - 早稲田大学
- Dazai Osamu, The Setting Sun (Shayō, 1947; tr. Donald Keene; tr.1956) ... example, the cover of Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles features a dandy Western-style man and a half-naked geisha …
BAB 2 DAZAI OSAMU DAN NOVEL NINGEN SHIKKAKU
2.1.1 Biografi Dazai Osamu2 Dazai Osamu (太宰治) dilahirkan dengan nama Tsushima Shuji (津島修治) pada tanggal 19 Juni 1909 di desa Kanagi yang terletak di wilayah Tsugaru Utara …
La genèse de 'La Déchéance d'un homme' de Dazai Osamu …
La Déchéance d'un homme de l'écrivain Dazai Osamu. Mais avant d'entrer dans le vif du sujet, je me permets quelques considérations d'ordre général. PRODUIRE L'ŒUVRE Considérons …
In Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai
SUICIDE AND DAZAI SUICIDAL NARRATIVE IN MODERN JAPAN: THE CASE OF DAZAI OSAMU, by Alan Wolfe. Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 263. $29.95. Reviewed by …
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osamu dazai s no longer human this leading postwar japanese writer s second novel tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man ... guilt and shame themes of human …
NADIE SABE Y OTROS CUENTOS - Archive.org
Osamu Dazai Osamu Dazai (seudónimo de Shūji Tsushima) nació en Kanagi, Prefectura de Aomori, Japón. En 1923 asistió a la escuela secundaria de Aomori e ingresó en el …
Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 1 - Archive.org
His name: Osamu Dazai. A rather proper-sounding name. “Phew. Kunikida, I’m exhausted. Could you slow down a little? This isn’t good for my health, you know.” “Just pick up the pace, you …
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Shikkaku Karya Osamu Dazai Ilham Rabbani, Hatindriya Hangganararas Magister Sastra, Universitas Gadjah Mada ilhamrabbani@mail.ugm.ac.id Abstract
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("Orni," 1949) and Dazai Osamu ("Villon's Wife," 1947, and The Set-ting Sun, 1947) are autobiographical, psychological examinations. The Setting Sun is an especially mov-ing novel. …
Colecţie coordonată de DENISA COMĂNESCU - Humanitas
DAZAI, OSAMU Decădere umană / Osamu Dazai; trad. din japoneză, postf. şi note de George T. Şipoş. – Bucureşti: Humanitas Fiction, 2024 ISBN 978-606-097-380-5 I. Şipoş, George (trad.; …
«Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son …
Osamu Dazai Indigno de ser humano ePub r1.1 Titivillus 27.1.2015 www.lectulandia.com - Página 3. Título original: (Ningen shikkaku) Osamu Dazai, 1948 Traducción: Montse Watkins Retoque …
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Dazai looks disappointed. But to have prepared a machine gun and a bazooka, they may perhaps be more than a bunch of fools. Too bad the one they had to meet with was Dazai. There is a …
No Longer Human By Osamu Dazai - Southern West Virginia …
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Dazai Osamu, Ningen shikkaku (No Longer Human), serialized in Tenbõ (Outlook) 6-8. After the death of the author, the paperback was published in July 1948. ... writing style. Rather than …
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The remaining photograph is the most monstrous of all. It is quite impossible in this one even to guess the age, though the hair seems to be streaked somewhat with grey.
Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu - ia801604.us.archive.org
(1642-1693) that Dazai published during World War II. Dazai’s title literally means “The Sea of Mermaids.” While the story follows the basic outline of Saikaku’s “The Sea of Life-taking …
What Is No Longer Human About - dashboard …
Kidder Hannah Frank Dazai Osamu Yukio Mishima Dazai Osamu Chūya Nakahara Ben Hourigan ... today as it was at the time of writing the japan times this final volume of the critically …
No Longer Dazai: The Re-Authoring and “Character ification” …
Jun 12, 2018 · Dazai Osamu (1909–1948) is a celebrated Japanese author who is most known for his postwar novels of despair and decadence, such ... Thank you to Tianyu Li for being a great …
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Osamu Dazai 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 …
RUN, MELOS! - Archive.org
BY OSAMU DAZAI Melos was enraged. He resolved to do whatever he must to rid the land of that evil and ruthless king. Melos knew nothing of politics. He was a mere shepherd from an …
PROLOGUE - Archive.org
I have seen three pictures of the man. The first, a childhood photograph you might call it, shows him about the age of ten, a small boy surrounded by a great many women (his sisters and
Despair in Asian Literature: Exploring Dazai Osamu’s No Longer
Osamu Dazai is one of the most celebrated writers of modern Japan. Although Dazai is not as well acknowledged elsewhere as he is in Japan, his literary works provide substantial material …
là một nhà văn Nhật Bản tiêu biểu cho thời kỳ vừa chấm dứt
Dazai Osamu là một nhà văn Nhật Bản tiêu biểu cho thời kỳ vừa chấm dứt Thế chiến thứ Hai ở Nhật. Xa lạ với nhân gian là nỗi ám ảnh bi ai mà nhân vật “tôi” (Yozo) luôn luôn cảm thấy. Anh …
LITERATURE - Web Japan
Dazai Osamu. Dazai’s Shayo (1947; The Setting Sun) and the novel published just before his suicide, Ningen shikkaku (1948; No Longer Human), attracted a large readership. Not long …
BSD Light Novel: Dazai Osamu and the Dark Era (Prologue, 1/3)
Dazai looks disappointed. But to have prepared a machine gun and a bazooka, they may perhaps be more than a bunch of fools. Too bad the one they had to meet with was Dazai. There is a …
Mishima Yukio and His Suicide - JSTOR
A typical example of the 'I-novelists' was Dazai Osamu (I909-48). The major characters of his novels are reflexions of the author himself. They are all at odds with society and violate the …
Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp. By DAZAI …
By DAZAI OSAMU. Translated by JAMES WESTERHOVEN. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985. xxviii, 189 pp. Photographs, Appendixes, Map. $16.95. There are now two translations of …
Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old (English Translation)
Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old (English Translation) Summary: The ghost of the previous boss haunts the Port Mafia. At fifteen, Osamu Dazai, under the careful eye of Ougai Mori, receives …
Orang Gagal (Osamu Dazai) - Archive.org
Orang Gagal/Osamu Dazai, penerjemah, Muhammad Al Mukhlishiddin, editor, Ama Achmad-—cet. 1-Yogyakarta: BASABASI, 2020 x 4116 hlmn: 14x 20 cm ISBN 978-623-7290-59-9 1. …
La caja de Pandora - Funambulista
nais, 1966-1986), reconoce que Osamu Dazai y él pertene-cen en cierto modo a la misma escuela japonesa «romántica» La caja de Pandora. 17 I Se alza el telón 1 Te equivocas por …
Dazai Osamu's Run, Moerus! and Friedrich Schiller's uDie …
Dazai Osamu's "Run, Moerus!" and Friedrich Schiller's uDie Burgschaft" JAMES M VARDAMAN, JR. Dazai Osamu (1909-48) is perhaps best known for his novels Shayô (The Setting Sun) and …
JOSEITO (LA STUDENTESSA) DI DAZAI OSAMU - JSTOR
Joseito di Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) fu scritto nel 1938 e pubbli cato nell'aprile del 1939 sulla rivista Bungakkai (Mondo letterario). II 20 luglio dello stesso anno la Casa Editrice Sunakoya …
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including the Tale of Heike, novels by Natsume Sõseki and Dazai Osamu, and even Moby Dick}1 Combining nioi with the suffix -kei (which is commonly used in fashion, music, and other …
What Is No Longer Human About - www.info.orats
Osamu Dazai Usamaru Furuya Junji Ito,Ichiro Nakayama,Hirokatsu Kihara Junji Ito,Ichiro Nakayama,Hirokatsu Kihara Osamu Dazai Osamu Dazai Onision Hannah Frank Brandon …
