Osamu Dazai





Osamu Dazai

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born
in Tsugaru /Kanagi, Japan
June 19, 1909

died
June 13, 1948

gender
male

genre


About this author

His real name is Shuuji Tsushima. Although his father wanted him to be a politician, he insisted on being an author. When he applied to the Tokyo University French Literature Department, he was 20 years old. For most of his lifetime, he was a drug addict, an alcoholic and a sufferer of tubercolosis.

His last book Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human)(1948) is an authobiography. It documents his childhood, university years, and the time in which he acquires tuberculosis in detail.

In 1948, he committed suicide with his mistress.

Osamu Dazai is still one of the most popular authors in Japan.


Average rating: 3.93 · 3,443 ratings · 273 reviews · 38 distinct works · Similar authors
No Longer Human
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,814 ratings — published 1948 — 23 editions
The Setting Sun
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 1,042 ratings — published 1947 — 15 editions
Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
Schoolgirl
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1939 — 4 editions
Self Portraits: Tales from ...
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Crackling Mountain and Othe...
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1900 — 5 editions
Return to Tsugaru: Travels ...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1944 — 3 editions
Run, Melos! and Other Stories
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions
Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale ...
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
La Femme de Villon
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1947 — 4 editions
More books by Osamu Dazai…
“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened.”
Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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