In Gezeichnet, dem meisterhaften Roman von Osamu Dazai, navigieren wir durch die zutiefst persönlichen Aufzeichnungen von Yozo, einem Mann, der sich von der Menschheit entfremdet fühlt. Dieser introspektive Rückblick auf ein Leben voller Missverständnisse und Fehlinterpretationen lädt uns...

Uegnet som menneske er Osamu Dazais mesterværk fra 1948. Den er en af de mest læste bøger i Japan og er solgt i millioner af eksemplarer verden over. Uegnet som menneske er historien om Yōzō, som fra tidlig barndom bærer på en afgrundsdyb følelse af ikke at høre til. Han føler intet...

For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age—is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is...

Three stories of the ruined and the lost: Osamu Dazai at his most tormented. This collection unearths the Japanese literary legend’s most controversial and exhilarating early-career writing with strikingly original translations. “Retrograde” traces the life of an anguished youth in reverse...

For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer. A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a...

An old world is dying. One daughter must decide what survives after everything she knows falls apart. In postwar Japan, Kazuko's once-privileged family is losing its status, financial security, and place in society. As her mother declines and her brother struggles with his own turmoil, Kazuko...

The unfiltered reality of Osamu Dazai’s masterpiece in a completely new, independent English translation. No Longer Human (originally published as Ningen Shikkaku) is the definitive masterwork of mid-century Japanese psychological fiction. This visceral, deeply personal narrative follows Oba...

Ocho escenas de Tokio reúne, por primera vez en castellano, nueve relatos de uno de los escritores con más talento de la literatura nipona del siglo XX. Muy apreciado entre la juventud japonesa, Dazai goza en la actualidad de un reconocimiento equiparable al de ilustres compatriotas suyos como...

This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 6. H. P...

'Een leven vol schaamte heb ik geleid. Het dagelijks bestaan van mensen, daar krijg ik geen vat op.' Het zijn de eerste zinnen uit het dagboek van Yozo Oba, een jongeman die leeft in een steeds woeliger Japan. Zijn ouders zijn altijd afwezig en hij heeft moeite contact met leeftijdsgenoten te...