Osamu Dazai’s 1935 novella “The Flowers of Buffoonery” shares a protagonist, the young, wannabe writer Yozo Oba, with the author’s modern classic novel “No Longer Human,” released more ...

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 ...

Osamu Dazai’s bleak prose was matched only by his own misery The Japanese writer’s short-story collection “No One Knows” shows why he was the master of melancholy. February 7, 2025 ...