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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 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) — biography from No Longer Human… (more)
No Longer Human 2,046 copies, 35 reviews
The Setting Sun 843 copies, 11 reviews
Schoolgirl 198 copies, 7 reviews
Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu 188 copies, 2 reviews
Self Portraits 85 copies
Run, Melos! 52 copies
Early Light 25 copies
Villon's Wife 18 copies, 2 reviews
Pandora's Box 18 copies
Later Years 13 copies
Farewell 9 copies
Eight Scenes of Tokyo 8 copies, 1 review
Roman Lantern 5 copies
A New Hamlet 5 copies
Repudiados 5 copies
La Déchéance d'un Homme T01 (Contributor) 4 copies
Word of Araki 4 copies
Grasshopper 4 copies
New Hamlet 2 copies
Recuerdos 2 copies
Mulheres 1 copy
Nữ sinh 1 copy
海 [Umi] 1 copy
Waiting 1 copy
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