Writing is a famously miserable profession, but Osamu Dazai stands out as one of the ... newly translated from Japanese by Ralph McCarthy. The protagonists of the stories, six of which have ...
Muraoka No matter how successful he became, he was devoted to amateurism in a good sense and discussed freely with others on ...
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A portrait drawn by literary giant Osamu ... by Dazai. The decisive factor was that it had been kept by Ishii. Information on the latest cherry blossom conditions. (The page is in Japanese.
Osamu Dazai, trans. from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3933-2 This dazzling collection from Dazai (1909–1948) comprises all the ...