Osamu Dazai (1909–1948)
Author of No Longer Human
About the Author
Born into a near-aristocratic family whose declining world he depicts in The Setting Sun (1947), Dazai had the means to become an accomplished dilettante and rake. Around 1933 he began to think seriously about writing, but his life was complicated by drug addiction, a string of affairs, and two show more attempts at suicide. The end of the war brought a change in Dazai, and he produced his finest works, even though his own life was ending because of alcoholism and tuberculosis. The darkness of his works reveals his tortured existence, which he ended by suicide. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Works by Osamu Dazai
Ningen shikkaku, Ótó (人間失格・桜桃) 2 copies
Дас Гемайнэ 1 copy
December 8th 1 copy
Припадаю к вашим стопам 1 copy
Одежда из рыбьей чешуи 1 copy
Обезьяний остров 1 copy
Thất lạc cõi người 1 copy
DIELLI QE PERENDON 1 copy
Zapadající slunce 1 copy
Cuentos de cabecera 1 copy
Lantern [short story] 1 copy
Nữ sinh 1 copy
海 [Umi] 1 copy
Tà Dương 1 copy
Mulheres 1 copy
Owoce wiśni 1 copy
Early Light [short story] 1 copy
The Story of a Pet Dog 1 copy
Waiting 1 copy
Associated Works
釣魚の迷宮―怪異幻魚譚~ファンに贈る傑作集 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Dazai, Osamu
- Legal name
- 太宰 治
Tsushima Shuji - Other names
- Osamu, Dazai
- Birthdate
- 1909-06-19
- Date of death
- 1948-06-13
- Burial location
- Zenrin-Ji Temple, Shimorenjaku, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birthplace
- Kanagi, Aomori prefecture, Japan
- Place of death
- Tokyo, Japan
- Places of residence
- Tokyo, Japan
Kanagi, Aomori prefecture, Japan - Education
- Aomori Prefectural Aomori High School
Hirosaki University
University of Tokyo (French Literature | dropped out) - Occupations
- short-story writer
novelist - Relationships
- Tsushima, Yūko (daughter)
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- Works
- 88
- Also by
- 21
- Members
- 4,432
- Popularity
- #5,652
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 69
- ISBNs
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- Languages
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- Favorited
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short story about the absurd feelings one might feel in a sanitarium following a failed suicide attempt, punctuated by the narrator's self-deprecating/self-loathing humor about how he's failing as an author/storyteller, written by a renowned author who would himself commit suicide 13 years later.
a fairly bizarre reading experience; I'm not sure what to make of it, frankly, but the good news is it's really short.
takes place in 1930s Japan, winter.… (more)