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A Shameful Life
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ISBN-13:
9781611720440
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.11.2018
Seiten:
144
Autor:
Osamu Dazai
Gewicht:
143 g
Format:
178x127x9 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Author Osamu Dazai (1909–48) retains an enormous following today. He is as famous for his darkly introspective novels as for the light-hearted children’s stories that are a staple of many Japanese textbooks. His novel Shayo has been published in English as The Setting Sun. Son of a wealthy family in northern Japan, Dazai was a top student who showed an early penchant for literary writing. He led a troubled, unstable life and suffered from drug abuse and alcoholism; he attempted suicide and had numerous affairs, even as his literary fame grew. A Shameful Life is said to be a close approximation of his lifestyle and struggles. The protagonist in the novel survives, but shortly after publication of A Shameful Life, Dazai and his lover drowned themselves in the Tamagawa Canal in western Tokyo.
A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic know to the west as No Longer Human-a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Dogs