The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories - Paperback
by Osamu Dazai
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Availability:In StockContributor:Osamu Dazai, James O'Brien (Translator)Publish date:2024-09-24Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tuttle PublishingISBN-13:9784805318348ISBN-10:4805318341UPC:9784805318348Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, MemoirsSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCRAQW7ZQQ
The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty 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." --Andrew Martin, The New York Times "... translator O'Brien excels, his unembellished use of language allowing the comically dry but fraught moments of Dazai's prose to flourish." --Asian Review of Books Best-known for his novels No Longer Human...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tuttle PublishingISBN-13:9784805318348ISBN-10:4805318341UPC:9784805318348Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, MemoirsSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCRAQW7ZQQ
Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was the pen name of Shuji Tsushima, the tenth of eleven children born to a wealthy landowner and politician in the far north of Japan. Dazai studied French literature at the University of Tokyo, but never received a degree. He first attracted attention in 1933 when magazines began to publish his work. Between 1930 and 1937, he made three suicide attempts, a subject he...
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