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The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Short Stories

By Osamu Dazai, James O'Brien (Translator)
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By Osamu Dazai, James O'Brien (Translator)
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"Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras." —Andrew Martin, The New York Times

"… translator O'Brien excels, his unembellished use of language allowing the comically dry but fraught moments of Dazai's prose to flourish." —Asian Review of Books

Best-known for his novels No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Dazai was also an acclaimed writer of short stories, experimenting with a wide va...

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