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A Life in Twenty Short Stories
"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...
No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life/ Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar...
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The classic Japanese novel of alienation and the search for meaning and connection in the modern world, in a brilliant new translation—for fans of S...
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The Manga Edition
"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�...
(Ningen Shikkaku)
A new translation of one of the greatest works of postwar Japanese literature, acutely capturing modern anxiety and alienation...
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 Da...
No Longer Human 人間失格 by Osamu Dazai 太宰治 JLPT N3/N2 Japanese Reading Practice This series is for the people/students who want to learn Ja...
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapab...
novella depicts a day in the life of a Tokyo schoolgirl. Propelling Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for i...
The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
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 base...
Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu ...
Sumo “You’re weaker than I thought,” Seiji chimed cheerfully. It was, of course, simply one way for him to remark on his own strength after soun...
A Life in Twenty Stories
Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted ...
Instances of Literary Adaptation
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) is a key figure in modern Japanese literature. He is renowned for the intellectual play and superb craft of his numero...
For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a sea...
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, it probes th...
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 h...
For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer....
Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
Twenty autobiographical stories describe with honesty and self-deprecating humour the women, the suicide attempts, the drinking and the struggle again...
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 sanatori...
"Self Portraits" by Dazai Osamu is a collection of short stories, essays, and personal reflections that offer insight into the mind and struggles of t...
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 san...
Dalla penna di uno dei più grandi scrittori giapponesi del ‘900, un romanzo poetico e suggestivo sul bisogno di tornare a casa e di confrontarsi co...
"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...
Maiden's Bookshelf
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 exis...
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky, At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, No Longer Human or Confessions of a Faulty Man by Osamu Dazai
This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodg...
Travels of a Purple Tramp
A New Translation
"Dazai's best novel [...] the story focuses on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior" --The New York Times Thi...
This book is a collection of twelve works written by Osamu Dazai between 1938 and 1948. The range of works spans from Dazai's mid- to late-periods, an...
A collection of short stories in female monologues, showing Osamu Dazai's rare, tender side. It contains a total of 11 short stories, taking Girls - T...
MIYAZAWA KENJI remains not only Japan's most popular and beloved writer of stories for children and adults but a prescient voice for this century on h...
(Eight Views of Tokyo)
Hasht Manzareye Tokyo is a Farsi edition of a collection of short stories by Japanese writer, Osamo Dazai, translated by Ramin Anwari, Afghan journali...