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The Setting Sun

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society....

Early Light

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a fam...

The Setting Sun

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years,...

No Longer Human

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a ...

Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun - The Manga Edition

A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in English & manga for the first time! This is the first manga edition in English of Th...

Self-Portraits - Stories

"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy o...

No Longer Human - A New Translation

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels hi...

The Beggar Student

A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just sent his publisher a terrible manuscript, filling him with dread and shame....

Nicht länger ein Mensch. Roman. Das Kultbuch aus Japan - 'No Longer Human ist heute vielleicht aktueller als je zuvor.' The Daily Star zum Bestseller 'Gezeichnet' (Ningen Shikkaku) von Osamu Dazai

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No One Knows

No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laug...

Schoolgirl

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the...

No Longer Human

The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic...

Good-Bye

Here to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai's legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which hav...

The Flowers of Buffoonery

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...

Self-Portraits