'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…

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

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

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…

Another spectacular collaboration from the Maiden's Bookshelf series, this dark and intense fable by the great giant of postward literature is brought to vivid life by contemporary master Nekosuke.

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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…