Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of...

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from ...

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Oba-the narrator of No Longer ...

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of...

'Art dies the moment it acquires authority.' So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Da...

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

'The novella that first propelled Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan. Essentially th...

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates ...

Recipient of the 2018 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation

The Tragedy of Hamlet is the consummate tale of an introspective melancholic struggling to come t...

Eines der meistgelesenen japanischen Bücher des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.Ein Schriftsteller entsc...

The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the tradit...