Review of Self-Portraits by Osamu Dazai

Can you turn a terrible life into high art?  Dazai’s life was astoundingly reprehensible. Attempting three love suicides, succeeding at one, and attempting at least 3 other suicides. Combined with addiction, mental illness, alcoholism, infidelity, multiple marriages and illegitimate children, supporting prostitutes, engaging in public violence and insults, following illegal Communism in a war-torn developing […]