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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, went his own way, even when that meant his death-and the death of others. Faced with pressure to conform, he declared his individuality to the world-in all its self-involved, self-conscious and self-h...

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 War II, this is the story of Kazuko, a strong-willed young woman from an aristocratic family that has fallen into poverty since the war. The book follows Kazuko's journey as she and her family struggle ...

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...

What dark fate awaits beneath the roaring falls? Suwa and her father live alone on the slopes of Horsebare Mountain, eking out the most meager of existences. During the warmer months the beautiful waterfall brings a few sightseers, but when winter comes there is only solitude. Suwa would do anything to escape the life to which her father has resigned himself. And the lure of the river is strong...This early classic from the author of Japan’s g...

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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 in Japan in the immediate aftermath of World War II, who finds himself caught between the disintegration of the traditions of his aristocratic provincial family and the impact of the new postwar worl...

Text in Arabic. 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 society. The story is told through the eyes of Kazuko, the unmarried daughter of a widowed aristocrat. When Kazukos mother falls ill, and due to their financial circumstances, they are forced to move into a cottage in the countryside. Her search for self-meaning in a society devoid of use...

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 hit anime series Bungo Stray Dogs, which features a character based on No Longer Human's author, Osamu DazaiA Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe EditionPortraying himself as a failure, the protagonist o...

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium 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 and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, c...

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 the part of Japan where he was born and raised. He writes with humor and warmth about old friends, the people (family and servants) who nurtured him, his obsession with crabs, and his worries over sa...

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 and caregivers. Osamu Dazai was a leading Japanese modern fiction writer who wrote in the genre of the "I" novel. His work reflected his troubled life, but Pandora's Box is one of his optimistic novels.

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 society. The influence of Osamu Dazai's novel has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her...

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 himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask h...

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 flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. "Everything's gone, " the father explains to his daughter: "Mr. Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, ...

Bir okurunun kendisine gönderdigi günlüklerden esinlenerek yazdigi Ögrenci Kizda Osamu Dazai bir Tokyo banliyösünde yasayan isimsiz bir genc kizin bir gününü anlatiyor. Aklina takilan sarkilari, yolda düsündügü ve gördüklerini, günlük yasama dair ayrintilari ve icten ice duydugu hüznü büyük bir basariyla ve empatiyle resmetmeyi basariyor. Yasama hep carpici bir dürüstlükle bakmis Dazainin bir gün kadar kisa romani, genclerin sesini ve düsüncel...

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Tokyo 2036. Eine revolutionäre medizinische Entdeckung verändert alles. Durch den Einsatz von Nanotechnologie gelingt es, der menschlichen Spezies ein 120-jähriges Leben ohne Krankheit zu garantieren. Ein idyllisches und zugleich trügerisches Versprechen für jene, die sich diesen Luxus leisten können. Doch wo Licht ist, ist auch Schatten - und bald schon offenbart sich die Kehrseite dieser technologischen Errungenschaft, die die ganze Menschhe...

Tokyo 2036. Eine revolutionäre medizinische Entdeckung verändert alles. Durch den Einsatz von Nanotechnologie gelingt es, der menschlichen Spezies ein 120-jähriges Leben ohne Krankheit zu garantieren. Ein idyllisches und zugleich trügerisches Versprechen für jene, die sich diesen Luxus leisten können. Doch wo Licht ist, ist auch Schatten - und bald schon offenbart sich die Kehrseite dieser technologischen Errungenschaft, die die ganze Menschhe...