The Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai. By Andrew Martin. March 5, 2023. The first thing you hear is an eerie synth tone, followed by a portentous, insinuating voice. “Tell me, Dazai,” it says.

Anime and manga frequently pay homage to Osamu Dazai, a troubled Japanese literary figure with a unique life story and dark themes. Dazai's works, like "No Longer Human," reflect personal ...

2019 is the 110th anniversary of Dazai Osamu's birth. ... The outline is as follows. 'I have a shameful life.' Tokyo in 1974, overcoming 'death' by the medical revolution ...

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.

Osamu Dazai, however, was one such figure who didn't fit the saint template. Major Japanese cultural figures often become subjects of films when big birth or death anniversaries roll around.

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 ...

Osamu Dazai and Chuuya Nakahara are highlights in Bungo Stray Dogs, and of course that means this look back at these characters in Bungo Stray Dogs: Dazai, Chuuya, Age 15 is an absolute delight.

By Osamu Dazai, translated by Ralph McCarthy Fiction/New Directions/Paperback/232 pages/$24.16/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3UFkWhf) 4 stars. Born in 1909 in Aomori prefecture, the scandalous writer Osamu ...

How does Osamu Dazai's magnum opus, No Longer Human, tell a tale of distortion, degeneration, and decay. Read the review here. No Longer Human is perhaps more relevant today than it has ever been.

The writer Dazai Osamu penned classic novels like The Setting Sun and No Longer Human during his short life. The Shayōkan, one of his childhood homes, is today a museum showcasing memorabilia ...