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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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Average rating: 3.96 · 368,043 ratings · 46,626 reviews · 1,107 distinct works • Similar authors

	No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 243,438 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 — 41,777 ratings — published 1947 — 17 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) 3.97 avg rating — 24,459 ratings — published 1939 — 75 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 — 10,559 ratings — published 1935	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 — 3,046 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) 3.66 avg rating — 1,900 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 — 1,765 ratings — published 1944 — 5 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 4.14 avg rating — 1,379 ratings — published 1991 — 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
	Run, Melos! and Other Stories by Osamu Dazai, Ralph F. McCarthy (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 1,420 ratings — published 1940 — 30 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
	Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu by Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (Translator), Joel Cohn (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 1,372 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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太宰治全集 [Dazai Osamu Zenshū] (9 books)
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Quotes by Osamu Dazai (?)

“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

tags: love, revolution

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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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Ha llegado, un poco retrasado, el momento de elegir las lecturas para el mes de Mayo.

En esta ocasión, votaremos por la categoría 25. Un libro inspirado por una mitología, leyenda o folclore.

Northumbria, El último reino, de Bernard Cornwell

8 votes, 17.0%

Mientras no tengamos rostro, de C.S. Lewis

7 votes, 14.9%

El gigante enterrado, de Kazuo Ishiguro

6 votes, 12.8%

El rey debe morir, de Mary Renault

5 votes, 10.6%

El tren nocturno de la Vía Láctea, de Kenji Miyazawa

5 votes, 10.6%

Los Buenos, de Hannah Kent

4 votes, 8.5%

Bosque Mitago, de Robert Holdstock

2 votes, 4.3%

El libro de los tres, de Lloyd Alexander

2 votes, 4.3%

El bosque sabe tu nombre, de Alaitz Leceaga

2 votes, 4.3%

El Cantar de Quetzalcóatl: Ehécatl, de Slaymen Bonilla

2 votes, 4.3%

Acosado, de Kevin Hearne

2 votes, 4.3%

El Beso del Kelpie, de Sylvia North

1 vote, 2.1%

Cuentos de cabecera, de Osamu Dazai

1 vote, 2.1%

Las cuevas de Haydrahodahós, de Salim Barakat

0 votes, 0.0%

Los inmortales de Meluha, de Amish Tripathi

0 votes, 0.0%

Morsamor, de Juan Valera

0 votes, 0.0%

Declara, de Tim Powers

0 votes, 0.0%

Quince perros, de André Alexis

0 votes, 0.0%

2012 El Colapso del Tiempo, de Mauro Barea

0 votes, 0.0%

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