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Osamu Dazai

Born

in Tsugaru /Kanagi, Japan

June 19, 1909

Died

June 13, 1948

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.
With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan. ...more

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	No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 259,029 ratings — published 1948 — 335 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 43,908 ratings — published 1947 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai, Allison Markin Powell (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 25,928 ratings — published 1939 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 11,240 ratings — published 1935 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy by Osamu Dazai, Ralph F. McCarthy (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 3,129 ratings — published 1993 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beggar Student by Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett (Translator) 3.63 avg rating — 2,319 ratings — published 1940 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pandora's Box by Osamu Dazai, Shelley Marshall (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.58 avg rating — 1,921 ratings — published 1944 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic 4.12 avg rating — 1,513 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Run, Melos! and Other Stories by Osamu Dazai, Ralph F. McCarthy (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 1,467 ratings — published 1940	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu by Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (Translator), Joel Cohn (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 1,435 ratings — published 1945 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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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“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

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“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

tags: deceit, deception, human, life

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