Dazai Osamu művei

Self-Portraits

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....

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...

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,...

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 - Stories

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

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....

No Longer Human - Bekenntnisse eines Gezeichneten | Der Millionenseller aus Japan in der einzigen verbindlichen Übersetzung

Osamu Dazais No Longer Human ist ein Meisterwerk der japanischen Literatur und Kultbuch. Es wurde durch Verfilmungen und als Manga des be...

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...

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...

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

Neuübersetzung von Sabrina Wägerle Im Familienkreis mimt ¿ba Y¿z¿ den Clown, doch es sind die Possen eines Verzweifelten, der seine schwe...

Schoolgirl

An adolescent girl narrates her day in an existential masterpiece that explores what it means to be a forming person in a fomenting socie...

Justice with a Smile

A powerful novel of self-discovery from the author of No Longer Human--now available in English! Young Susumu is at a turning point. Shou...

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...