Reading No Longer Human feels like confronting my own hidden fractures, identity slipping, loneliness tightening, and the mask I’ve worn for years becoming painfully visible through Dazai’s stark, ...
For the first time in English, readers will be able to experience the early days of Japanese fiction’s beloved bad boy. Osamu Dazai’s 1935 novella “The Flowers of Buffoonery” shares a protagonist, the ...
Japanese literature is a vibrant world unto itself. Yet, even in this vastness of literary wealth, certain works exhibit such sincere profundity that they have become celebrated milestones in the ...
Under the production of AtelierPontdarc, No Longer Allowed in Another World episode 4 was released on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. The episode, titled Don't Kill Yourself, saw Osamu Dazai demonstrate his ...
Dazai was born into the fourth wealthiest family in Aomori, Dazai, who never felt true happiness while being raised on material wealth, gradually began to think that true happiness lies in the heart ...
The first and last stories feature a realistically quirky group of siblings who take turns at competitive, oral storytelling. The resulting story-within-a- story narratives firmly establishes the tone ...
The book has been translated into Persian by Morteza Sanne. The author is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of the 20th-century in Japan, whose novel “Shayo” (“The Setting Sun”), ...