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    The Flowers of Buffoonery

    Osamu Dazai

    For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human

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    Self-Portraits

    Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (trans.)

    Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best-and his worst

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    The Setting Sun

    Osamu Dazai

    Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature

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    No Longer Human

    Osamu Dazai

    The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.

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    The Setting Sun

    Osamu Dazai

    This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.

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    No Longer Human

    Osamu Dazai

    Now in a gift cloth edition, No Longer Human ponders profound alienation

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    Schoolgirl

    Osamu Dazai

    The novella that first propelled Dazai into the literary elite! The English translaiton has sold over 35,000 copies. Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic…

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    Osamu Dazai’s The Setting Sun

    Osamu Dazai

    A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in manga for the first time!

    This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai's classic novel…

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    Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human

    Osamu Dazai, Chika Itoh (retold & illus,), Makiko Itoh (trans.)

    'I've led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me.'

    This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai's masterpiece No Longer Human - the #2 bestselling…

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    The Real Osamu Dazai

    Osamu Dazai

    '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…

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    Schoolgirl

    Osamu Dazai

    Schoolgirl is the novella that first established Dazai as a member of Japan’s literary elite. This translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new…

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    No Longer Human

    Osamu Dazai

    '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…

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    Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu

    Osamu Dazai

    A glimpse into the humorous, sardonic world of Dazai Osamu, presenting a new and very different look at a one of the recognized masters of Japanese, and indeed global, literature…

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    Shayou

    Osamu Dazai

    From Wikipedia: The Setting Sun (ae-ue' Shayo) is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. It was published in 1947 and is set in Japan after World War II. Principal characters…

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    Ningen Shikkaku

    Osamu Dazai

    From Wikipedia: No Longer Human (a e-"a ae Ningen Shikkaku) is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. Published after "Run Melos" and "The Setting Sun", "No Longer Human" is considered…

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    The Setting Sun

    Osamu Dazai

    This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.

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    The Girl Who Became a Fish: Maiden’s Bookshelf

    Osamu Dazai

    Suwa, a charcoal burner's daughter, lives together with her father in a small village at a foot of a mountain so remote it doesn't even appear on maps.

    Slowly she…

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    A Shameful Life: (Ningen Shikkaku)

    Osamu Dazai

    A new translation of one of the greatest works of postwar Japanese literature, acutely capturing modern anxiety and alienation

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    Pandora’s Box

    Osamu Dazai

    The war is over. Japan is defeated. As his country rebuilds, a young man must fight disease and rebuild his life. He will start at a peculiar sanatorium, where everyone…

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    Home to Tsugaru

    Osamu Dazai

    Place: Tsugaru in Aomori Prefecture, Japan Time: Spring 1944

    As World War II was coming to an end, Osamu Dazai (born Shuji Tsushima) returned to his home in the northern…

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    No Longer Human: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Osamu Dazai

    A 75th-anniversary edition of the classic Japanese novel of alienation and the search for meaning and connection in the modern world, in its first new English translation in more than…

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    No Longer Human Complete Edition (manga)

    Usamaru Furuya,Osamu Dazai

    Osamu Dazai’s classic tale retold by Usamaru Furuya is now in a complete omnibus edition!

    No Longer Human, the searing semi-autobiographical novel by Osamu Dazai, Japan’s Dostoevsky, trades its original…

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    The Author’s Presence in the Select Fictional Elements of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human

    Louren Jay Caballero, Christia Mae Rodriguez, Mark Paul Famat

    A footprint of reality dwells in every pen a writer holds. Whenever it inks from one page to the next, it is inevitable for him to contribute a piece of…

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    Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu

    Osamu Dazai

    Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai’s retellings are based are well known to every…

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    Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 2 (light novel): Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era

    Kafka Asagiri

    Before joining the Armed Detective Agency, Osamu Dazai was the youngest executive with the Port Mafia, the most notorious underground crime syndicate in all of Yokohama. When one of their…

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    The Setting Sun

    Dazai Osamu

    Shayou or The Setting Sun, a classic by Dazai Osamu. It is a story set at the end of WWII, and when another battle for survival began as the four…

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    Early Light

    Osamu Dazai

    Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human

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    The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations

    Phyllis Lyons

    This is a discussion of Dazai Osamu in two parts. Part I examines Dazai’s life and some of the psychological problems that persistently haunted him. Part II studies his many…

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    Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu

    Alan Stephen Wolfe

    Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan’s most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of…

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    Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu

    Alan Stephen Wolfe

    Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan’s most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of…

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