Osamu Dazai

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born

June 19, 1909 in Tsugaru /Kanagi, Japan

died

June 13, 1948

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction

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

His last book Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human)(1948) is kind of an authobiography; his childhood, his university years, and the times he cathches tuberculosis, was written in detail, in this book.

In 1948, he committed suicide with his mistress.

He is still one of the most popular authors in Japan.

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Average rating: 3.90 · 1,707 ratings · 152 reviews · 50 distinct works

	No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 825 ratings — published 1948 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy by Osamu Dazai, Ralph F. McCarthy (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Crackling Mountain and Other Stories by Osamu Dazai, James J. O'Brien (Translator), James O'Brien 3.92 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai, Allison Markin Powell (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	斜陽 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1947 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Il sole si spegne by Osamu Dazai, Luciano Bianciardi (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Run, Melos! and Other Stories by Osamu Dazai, Ralph F. McCarthy (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1988	My rating:

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Quotes 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

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

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“Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life.”
― Osamu Dazai

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