Osamu Dazai

تدور أحداث هذه الرواية في إطار أسري لعائلة من عائلات النبلاء في اليابان حيث تعيش إحدى الفتيات مع أمها المريضة؛ إحدى نبيلات اليابان، بعد أن كان قد توفي أبوها منذ زمن. وتعاني تلك الف….

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.

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956 - and now, for the first time, is available in audio, with the spellbinding narration of June Angela. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the...

A dark literary cult classic about alienation, self-destruction, and not fitting in.

Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, SELF-PORTRAITS shows the legendary writer at his best and worst.

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...

The unfiltered reality of Osamu Dazai’s masterpiece in a completely new, independent English translation. No Longer Human (originally published as Ningen Shikkaku) is the definitive masterwork of mid-century Japanese psychological fiction. This visceral, deeply personal narrative follows Oba...

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 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...

初期の名作から絶筆未完の『グッドバイ』など58作品を収録。津軽の大地主の六男として生まれ、共産主義運動から脱落して遺書のつもりで書いた第一創作集のタイトルは「晩年」。

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 Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 6. H. P...

Here to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai’s legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English. Beginning with “Memories” (which tells a tale of teenage love, based on the autobiographical events that inspired...

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 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...

Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in EnglishNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful...

For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer. A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a...

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 crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō...

「無頼派」「新戯作派」の破滅型作家を代表する昭和初期の小説家、太宰治の長編小説。初出は「展望」［1948（昭和23）年］。

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. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

初期作品『ダス・ゲマイネ』から未完の絶筆『グッド・バイ』まで、珠玉の14作品を発表順に収録しています。無頼の作家太宰治の名作を、プロの朗読でお楽しみください。

Uegnet som menneske er Osamu Dazais mesterværk fra 1948. Den er en af de mest læste bøger i Japan og er solgt i millioner af eksemplarer verden over. Uegnet som menneske er historien om Yōzō, som fra tidlig barndom bærer på en afgrundsdyb følelse af ikke at høre til. Han føler intet...

An old world is dying. One daughter must decide what survives after everything she knows falls apart. In postwar Japan, Kazuko's once-privileged family is losing its status, financial security, and place in society. As her mother declines and her brother struggles with his own turmoil, Kazuko...