Michael’s Reviews > The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations > Status Update

“The first lesson that turns a youth into an adult is that you cannot trust people. An adult is a youth betrayed.”
(from “Tsugaru”)

“…Dazai created a unified, many-chaptered narrative out of the confused and accidental events of his life and presented it as the life struggles of a strongly engaging character we call “Osamu,” as he himself did in some stories.”