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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 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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    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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    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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    No One Knows

    Osamu Dazai

    Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai's fabled career, some never before seen in English

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    The Beggar Student

    Osamu Dazai

    For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The Setting Sun

    Osamu Dazai

    "Dazai's best novel [...] the story focuses on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior" -The New York Times

    This book is a completely new…

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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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    The Setting Sun

    Osamu Dazai

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

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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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    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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    The Girl Who Became a Fish: Maiden’s Bookshelf

    Osamu Dazai

    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The Author’s Presence in the Select Fictional Elements of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human (Edition1)

    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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    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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    Soleil Couchant

    Dazai Osamu

    Seigneur et maitre de la creation: l'homme pretend fierement a ce titre, mais au fond, il semble que rien ne le differencie des autres vivants, n'est-ce pas ? Pourtant, Mere…

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