Dazai Osamu művei

No Longer Human

The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic...

The Flowers of Buffoonery

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...

Schoolgirl

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the...

The Setting Sun

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society....

No Longer Human

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 f...

No One Knows

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 laug...

Self-Portraits - Stories

"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy o...

The Beggar Student

A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just sent his publisher a terrible manuscript, filling him with dread and shame....

Early Light

No Longer Human - Bekenntnisse eines Gezeichneten | Der Millionenseller aus Japan in der einzigen verbindlichen Übersetzung

Osamu Dazais No Longer Human. Bekenntnisse eines Gezeichneten ist ein Meisterwerk der japanischen Literatur und Kultbuch. Es wurde durch ...

No Longer Human - A New Translation

Nicht länger ein Mensch. Roman. Das Kultbuch aus Japan - 'No Longer Human ist heute vielleicht aktueller als je zuvor.' The Daily Star zum Bestseller 'Gezeichnet' (Ningen Shikkaku) von Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun - The Manga Edition

The Setting Sun

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,...

Good-Bye

Here to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai's legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which hav...

Schoolgirl

An adolescent girl narrates her day in an existential masterpiece that explores what it means to be a forming person in a fomenting socie...

Justice with a Smile

Self-Portraits