Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp

During the World War Ⅱ, Dazai travelled to Tsugaru, the very northern part of Honshu, Japan, where he was born and had grown up until he was 14. He wanted to search for his own roots, and having travelled various parts of Tsugaru including places he had never visitied before, and having met various people, his old friends, his relatives, and above all, his old nanny named 'Take', he was gradually convinced that he was truly one of Tsugaru people. Though he had lived and been suffered over ten years in Tokyo, he couldn't change, he was still none other than one of native Tsugaru people.

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> [Japon]. PAYS NATAL, par DAZAI Osamu, Traduit du japonais par Didier Chiche, 288 pages / 8,60 € / ISBN : 978-2-87730-813-7. — L’enfant terrible des lettres japonaises, suicidaire et toxicomane, nous montre ici un autre visage. Le voyage de Dazai à Tsugaru, son pays natal, se présente comme un retour de l’enfant prodigue, en quête d’amour et d’amitié. Souvenirs d’enfance, rencontres, paysages et vagabondages s’entremêlent pour composer un texte inclassable et souvent lumineux qui, par sa simplicité familière, évoque une lettre écrite à un ami.
—Catalogue Picquier Poche 2019