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The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant. Osamu Dazai, 1924. Where to begin the story? It’s tempting to start at the end—on the morning of Osamu Dazai’s 39th ...

The enduring appeal of a midcentury Japanese novelist who wrote of alienation and suicide. By Andrew Martin The first thing you hear is an eerie synth tone, followed by a portentous, insinuating voice ...

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Dazai Osamu’s literature is replete with Biblical references and Christian motifs. The Anglophone scholarly community has, however, traditionally dismissed the importance of Christianity in his work, ...

A gloomy young man feels deeply alienated from society. He is preoccupied with his inability to reveal himself to others but has learned to act the clown; he notes that, since childhood, he has ...

Dazai was born into the fourth wealthiest family in Aomori, Dazai, who never felt true happiness while being raised on material wealth, gradually began to think that true happiness lies in the heart ...

Writing is a famously miserable profession, but Osamu Dazai stands out as one of the most despondent writers ever to live. That strain is everywhere in evidence in his work, but it is on special ...

The author Osamu Dazai committed suicide — several times. The first was on a cold December night in 1929, just before his school exams. But the overdose of sleeping pills he took was not enough; he ...