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Ango Sakaguchi

Born

in Japan

January 01, 1906

Died

January 01, 1955

Genre

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From Niigata, Sakaguchi (坂口安吾) was one of a group of young Japanese writers to rise to prominence in the years immediately following Japan's defeat in World War II. In 1946 he wrote his most famous essay, titled "Darakuron" ("On Decadence"), which examined the role of bushido during the war. It is widely argued that he saw postwar Japan as decadent, yet more truthful than a wartime Japan built on illusions like bushido.
Ango was born in 1906, and was the 12th child of 13. He was born in the middle of a Japan perpetually at war. His father was the president of the Niigata Shinbun (Newspaper), a politician, and a poet.
Ango wanted to be a writer at 16. He moved to Tokyo at 17, after hitting a teacher who caught him truanting. His father died fr ...more

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	En el bosque, bajo los cerezos en flor by Ango Sakaguchi, Susana Hayashi (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 1,550 ratings — published 1947 — 14 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
	W lesie pod wiśniami w pełnym rozkwicie by Ango Sakaguchi, Karolina Bednarz (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 1,466 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Sobre la decadencia by Ango Sakaguchi, Lucía Hornedo Pérez-Aloe (Traductora) 3.92 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1942 — 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
	Under the blooming cherry trees. 3.97 avg rating — 63 ratings — 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
	堕落論 [Darakuron] 3.93 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1946 — 8 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
	Discourse on Decadence 3.86 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1946	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
	L'IDIOTE by Ango Sakaguchi, Edwige de Chavanes (Translator) 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1946 — 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
	ฆาตกรรม (ไม่?) ต่อเนื่อง by Ango Sakaguchi, ฉวีวงศ์ อัศวเสนา (Translator) 3.13 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1948 — 12 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
	Una mujer y la guerra by Ango Sakaguchi, Ivan Diaz Sancho (Traductor) 3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1946 — 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
	Гудбай. Рассказы: сборник by Ango Sakaguchi, Sakunosuke Oda, Osamu Dazai 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2021	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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“He pursued false shadows and had nothing to show for it but exhaustion.”
― Sakaguchi Ango

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“Some had said that they could not write because of military censorship, but the fact was that, war or no war, they had not the slightest idea how to write honestly on any subject. Truth or real feeling in writing had nothing to do with censorship. In whatever period these gentry had happened to live, their personalities would have been bound to display the same emptiness. They changed in accordance with the prevailing fashion and took for their models expression culled from popular novels of the day.”
― Sakaguchi Ango

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“The entire fate of the nation was being decided by the will of those men who had the feeblest power of introspection and by the blind actions of the ignorant mob that followed them.”
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