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Run, Melos! and other stories
Published in 1940, "Run, Melos!" is a widely read classic in Japanese schools.
The story is a reworking of Friedrich Schiller's ballad Die Bürgschaft, which tells the story of Moerus and Selinuntius (who have lent their names to Dazai's characters as well), originally Damon and Pythias. Schiller's version is based on an ancient Greek legend recorded by the Roman author Gaius Julius Hyginus.
The most prominent theme of "Run, Melos!" is unwavering friendship. Despite facing hardships, the protagonist Melos does his best to save his friend's life, and in the end his efforts are rewarded.
The story is a reworking of Friedrich Schiller's ballad Die Bürgschaft, which tells the story of Moerus and Selinuntius (who have lent their names to Dazai's characters as well), originally Damon and Pythias. Schiller's version is based on an ancient Greek legend recorded by the Roman author Gaius Julius Hyginus.
The most prominent theme of "Run, Melos!" is unwavering friendship. Despite facing hardships, the protagonist Melos does his best to save his friend's life, and in the end his efforts are rewarded.
232 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1940
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About the author
Osamu Dazai
1,136 books9,593 followersOsamu 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.
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.
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January 26, 2022
Osamu Dazai okumak, ölümü sürekli anımsamak gibi. Romanlarında da öykülerinde de yazarın kendi ile şöyle bir derdi olduğunu hissediyorum: Kendini sevme ile kendini öldürme arasında kalış. Yapabileceklerinin farkında ama yapabilecekleri beraberinde onlarca sorumluluk getirecek. Dünyanın kederi de var elbet ruhunda taşıdığı.
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'Koş Melos!' içerisinde 7 öykü barındırıyor. Bir çırpıda okunan öyküler bunlar. Kitaba ismini veren Koş Melos! da masalsı anlatımıyla,verdiği mesajla yazarın okuduğum en ümidvâr hikayesi olabilir.
Dazai ile tanışmak ve tabii devamında diğer eserlerini okuma merakı uyandırması için güzel bir başlangıç olabilir 'Koş Melos!'.
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Kitapta yer alan son öykü Öğrenci Kız, daha önce Barış Bayıksel çevirisi ile Can Yayınları Kısa Modern serisinde bizlerle buluşmuştu.Bu derlemede ise Sinan Ceylan çevirisi ile karşımızda. (İki hali de keyifli, Öğrenci Kız zaten başlı başına özel bir öykü benim için. Dazai, gencecik bir kızın hissettiklerini, aklından geçenleri öyle canlı ve gerçekçi anlatıyor ki..)
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Diğer öyküler ise Didem İpekoğlu çevirisiyle. Kapak tasarımı ise Natalia Suvorova çalışması~
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'Koş Melos!' içerisinde 7 öykü barındırıyor. Bir çırpıda okunan öyküler bunlar. Kitaba ismini veren Koş Melos! da masalsı anlatımıyla,verdiği mesajla yazarın okuduğum en ümidvâr hikayesi olabilir.
Dazai ile tanışmak ve tabii devamında diğer eserlerini okuma merakı uyandırması için güzel bir başlangıç olabilir 'Koş Melos!'.
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Kitapta yer alan son öykü Öğrenci Kız, daha önce Barış Bayıksel çevirisi ile Can Yayınları Kısa Modern serisinde bizlerle buluşmuştu.Bu derlemede ise Sinan Ceylan çevirisi ile karşımızda. (İki hali de keyifli, Öğrenci Kız zaten başlı başına özel bir öykü benim için. Dazai, gencecik bir kızın hissettiklerini, aklından geçenleri öyle canlı ve gerçekçi anlatıyor ki..)
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Diğer öyküler ise Didem İpekoğlu çevirisiyle. Kapak tasarımı ise Natalia Suvorova çalışması~
April 20, 2015
Mizuki Nomura was right -- Osamu Dazai is far funnier than people give him credit for. This is a guy who attempted suicide five times -- three of them double suicides, two of which left his partner dead and one of which left him dead -- and whose most famous book is about a guy who spends two hundred pages talking about his existential angst before committing suicide, so it's understandable that people tend to think of him as a Gloomy Gus. But as Nomura points out in her novel Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime, this is an incomplete portrait, a mere caricature of Dazai. In truth Dazai managed to be happy at many points in his life, and it's reflected in his works.
Of the seven stories in this volume, four qualify as comedies -- some more than others, but all definitely on the humorous side -- and a fifth is whimsical.
The collection is book-ended by two stories that are little more than jokes. The first is an amusing anecdote about a woman whose husband is temporarily impotent due to a surgery, and will certainly bring a smile to your face as you start the book. The last, however, is rather like the best man at a wedding getting up to give a toast only to let out a loud, smelly fart. The story plays out like something profound is going to happen, building up and up to a tender moment of emotional revelation, but when we get there Dazai pulls the rug out from under us and stands there laughing. Normally the author and reader conspire together to laugh at the characters; seldom does the author make the reader feel like the butt of the joke, but that's exactly what Dazai manages.
The title story is probably the most famous, a tale of a condemned man who receives leave to attend his sister's wedding if a friend will stand as a hostage to be executed if the man fails to return in three days. All goes well until the man has to return for his execution and suddenly finds himself beset by everything from a hangover, to a flooded river, to bandits. It's cute, it's fun, but I'm not sure it stands up to its reputation.
"One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji," is a play on all the various collections of woodprints of Mount Fuji, but Dazai begins by undercutting his subject, complaining that the artists always depict Fuji with a sharp, acute peak, when in reality it's an obtuse 120 degrees, something the average Tibetan would consider bland and unremarkable. Dazai goes on to describe various views he's had of Mount Fuji throughout his life. One of the first he mentions is a dingy apartment he used to live in where he could see Fujisan through his bathroom window every morning when he went to take a leak. Most of the views in the story come from a sabbatical he took in Misaka Pass, where his work was constantly disturbed by tourists coming through to catch a glimpse of the mountain.
The wistful story, which may be a ghost story or it may not, is a sweet tale about a young woman trying to make her terminally ill sister happy in her last days. It's very sweet, but the is-it-a-ghost thing feels a little forced.
Of the non-humorous stories, we have "Eight Views of Tokyo," which is a brief biographical sketch detailing Dazai's various suicide attempts up till that point in life. In many ways this seems to be a rough draft of No Longer Human, though with none of the fictional touches. Given the lack of biographies of Dazai in English, this is well worth reading for the details of his life, even if it does end a decade before his death.
The other serious story is "Schoolgirl," which I'm glad I found here since it's also available in a grossly overpriced standalone edition. The story's set during World War II and follows a schoolgirl through her daily life, from the moment she wakes up in the morning to when she crawls into bad at night. Yes, you may have thought the Japanese obsession with the lives of schoolgirls was something unique to anime, but in fact it has much deeper roots. Nothing really happens in the story, and despite the time frame in which it's set, most of the protagonist's worries are things that are still relevant today.
Sadly, this book isn't published in the United States, or any other Anglophone country for that matter. No, it's put out by Kodansha Japan as a way of helping Japanese speakers learn English. It's not a pure bilingual edition, but the last forty pages are devoted to endnotes comparing the English text to the original and explaining various idioms. But thanks to Amazon, there are plenty of used copies available in the US.
Of the seven stories in this volume, four qualify as comedies -- some more than others, but all definitely on the humorous side -- and a fifth is whimsical.
The collection is book-ended by two stories that are little more than jokes. The first is an amusing anecdote about a woman whose husband is temporarily impotent due to a surgery, and will certainly bring a smile to your face as you start the book. The last, however, is rather like the best man at a wedding getting up to give a toast only to let out a loud, smelly fart. The story plays out like something profound is going to happen, building up and up to a tender moment of emotional revelation, but when we get there Dazai pulls the rug out from under us and stands there laughing. Normally the author and reader conspire together to laugh at the characters; seldom does the author make the reader feel like the butt of the joke, but that's exactly what Dazai manages.
The title story is probably the most famous, a tale of a condemned man who receives leave to attend his sister's wedding if a friend will stand as a hostage to be executed if the man fails to return in three days. All goes well until the man has to return for his execution and suddenly finds himself beset by everything from a hangover, to a flooded river, to bandits. It's cute, it's fun, but I'm not sure it stands up to its reputation.
"One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji," is a play on all the various collections of woodprints of Mount Fuji, but Dazai begins by undercutting his subject, complaining that the artists always depict Fuji with a sharp, acute peak, when in reality it's an obtuse 120 degrees, something the average Tibetan would consider bland and unremarkable. Dazai goes on to describe various views he's had of Mount Fuji throughout his life. One of the first he mentions is a dingy apartment he used to live in where he could see Fujisan through his bathroom window every morning when he went to take a leak. Most of the views in the story come from a sabbatical he took in Misaka Pass, where his work was constantly disturbed by tourists coming through to catch a glimpse of the mountain.
The wistful story, which may be a ghost story or it may not, is a sweet tale about a young woman trying to make her terminally ill sister happy in her last days. It's very sweet, but the is-it-a-ghost thing feels a little forced.
Of the non-humorous stories, we have "Eight Views of Tokyo," which is a brief biographical sketch detailing Dazai's various suicide attempts up till that point in life. In many ways this seems to be a rough draft of No Longer Human, though with none of the fictional touches. Given the lack of biographies of Dazai in English, this is well worth reading for the details of his life, even if it does end a decade before his death.
The other serious story is "Schoolgirl," which I'm glad I found here since it's also available in a grossly overpriced standalone edition. The story's set during World War II and follows a schoolgirl through her daily life, from the moment she wakes up in the morning to when she crawls into bad at night. Yes, you may have thought the Japanese obsession with the lives of schoolgirls was something unique to anime, but in fact it has much deeper roots. Nothing really happens in the story, and despite the time frame in which it's set, most of the protagonist's worries are things that are still relevant today.
Sadly, this book isn't published in the United States, or any other Anglophone country for that matter. No, it's put out by Kodansha Japan as a way of helping Japanese speakers learn English. It's not a pure bilingual edition, but the last forty pages are devoted to endnotes comparing the English text to the original and explaining various idioms. But thanks to Amazon, there are plenty of used copies available in the US.
October 30, 2024
Çok sevdiğim bir Japon yazar olan Dazai’nin, altı kısa ve bir uzun öyküsünden oluşan güzel bir eser. Dazai’nin öyküleri, romanlarından daha farklı, daha aydınlık.
Güzel bir çeviri ve baskı. İçerisinde yer alan öyküler; Koş Meloş, Karlı Bir Gecenin Hikayesi, Tak Tak, Eski Heidelberg, Gerçekleşen Dilek, Villon’un Karısı ve Öğrenci Kız.
Kitaptaki son öykü olan ve farklı bir çevirmen (Barış Bayıksel) tarafından çevrilen Öğrenci Kız, bağımsız bir öykü kitabı olarak ayrıca basılmıştı. Evvelce okuduğum bu kitap için yazdığım kısa metni de aşağıya ekliyorum.
Ergenlik dönemi sıkıntılarını bu kadar etkili anlatan ve beni derinden etkileyen çok az sayıdaki kitaptan birisi. Kahramanımız, ergenlik döneminde babasını kaybetmiş olan bir ergen. Zaten zorlu geçen ergenlik döneminin üstüne, bir de baba kaybının yarattığı travma ve boşluk duygusu...
Yazarın daha sonra yayınlanmış kitaplarının çoğunda gördüğümüz o karanlık ve sıkıntılı anlatımından uzak olduğunu, şeklen daha hafif, ancak derinlik anlamında güçlü bir mesaj içerdiğini görüyoruz.
Beni en çok etkileyen yazarlardan birisi olan Osamu Dazai’den yine mutlaka okunması gereken bir öykü.
Güzel bir çeviri ve baskı. İçerisinde yer alan öyküler; Koş Meloş, Karlı Bir Gecenin Hikayesi, Tak Tak, Eski Heidelberg, Gerçekleşen Dilek, Villon’un Karısı ve Öğrenci Kız.
Kitaptaki son öykü olan ve farklı bir çevirmen (Barış Bayıksel) tarafından çevrilen Öğrenci Kız, bağımsız bir öykü kitabı olarak ayrıca basılmıştı. Evvelce okuduğum bu kitap için yazdığım kısa metni de aşağıya ekliyorum.
Ergenlik dönemi sıkıntılarını bu kadar etkili anlatan ve beni derinden etkileyen çok az sayıdaki kitaptan birisi. Kahramanımız, ergenlik döneminde babasını kaybetmiş olan bir ergen. Zaten zorlu geçen ergenlik döneminin üstüne, bir de baba kaybının yarattığı travma ve boşluk duygusu...
Yazarın daha sonra yayınlanmış kitaplarının çoğunda gördüğümüz o karanlık ve sıkıntılı anlatımından uzak olduğunu, şeklen daha hafif, ancak derinlik anlamında güçlü bir mesaj içerdiğini görüyoruz.
Beni en çok etkileyen yazarlardan birisi olan Osamu Dazai’den yine mutlaka okunması gereken bir öykü.
February 8, 2025
Nice little Christmas read. After 5 books of Dazai I finally got why I like to read him! His is just like Dostoyevsky in small pills so that you can get a daily dose of Dostoyevsky whenever you need!
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Güzel küçük bir Noel okuması. Dazai'nin 5 kitabından sonra nihayet onu neden okumayı sevdiğimi anladım! Onun kitapları tıpkı Dostoyevski'nin küçük hapları gibi, böylece ihtiyacınız olduğunda günlük bir doz Dostoyevski alabilirsiniz!
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Güzel küçük bir Noel okuması. Dazai'nin 5 kitabından sonra nihayet onu neden okumayı sevdiğimi anladım! Onun kitapları tıpkı Dostoyevski'nin küçük hapları gibi, böylece ihtiyacınız olduğunda günlük bir doz Dostoyevski alabilirsiniz!
July 13, 2021
A Promise Fulfilled - 7/10
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji - 8/10
Schoolgirl - 10/10
Cherry Leaves and the Whistler - 8/10
Run, Melos! - 9/10
Eight Scenes from Tokyo - 10/10
One Snowy Night - 7/10
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji - 8/10
Schoolgirl - 10/10
Cherry Leaves and the Whistler - 8/10
Run, Melos! - 9/10
Eight Scenes from Tokyo - 10/10
One Snowy Night - 7/10
August 22, 2024
İlk öykü Koş Melos! en sevdiğim öykülerden biri oldu. Bundan sonra güven ve dostluktan bahsederken eminim hep aklıma gelecek. Öyküde Melos, insanların kötü niyetli ve bencil olduklarını düşünen zalim krala insanların aslında güvenilir ve iyi niyetli olduklarını göstermek istiyor ancak kendisi dönene kadar rehin kalan arkadaşı Selinintius infaz edilmeden yetişebilmek için dönmesi gereken yolda bazı hatalar yapıyor. Kısacık öykü boyunca Melos’un yolda oyalandığı o vakitler, geciktiğini fark edince yetişebilmek için koştuğu yollar beni arkadaşlık ve güven kavramları üzerinde uzunca düşünmeye itti. İnfaza çok az kala yetişmesini imkansız gören birinin bu saatten sonra ona yetişemezsin kendi canını kurtar merak etme onun içi rahattı endişelenmiyordu çünkü senin geleceğini düşünüyordu cümlelerine “Ben de bu nedenle koşuyorum ya! Bana güvenen biri olduğu için koşuyorum. Mesele yetişip yetişmemem değil.” diyor. Güven de böyle bir şey diye düşündüm okurken. Mesele yetişemeyeceğini düşünse bile son ana kadar bırakmadan tutmak, dostluğu üzerine inşa ettiğimiz güven böyle olmalı. Neyse ki infaz edilmeden de yetişiyor Melos ve kurtarıyor arkadaşını. Orada da beni daha çok etkileyen başka bir diyalog yaşanıyor aralarında. Selinintius’u gören Melos arkadaşına bana vurmazsan sana sarılmaya hakkım olmayacak diyor. Bunun üstüne Selinintius “Melos sen de bana vur. Hayatımda ilk defa senden şüphelendim.” diyor. Dostluk, aradaki güvene dair en ufak şüpheye yer bırakmamak, verdiği sözü tutmak, sözüyle karşıyı çağırdığı yere önce kendisi gitmek. Yazabildiğim hiçbir cümlenin düşündüklerimi de hissettiklerimi de ifade etmeye yetmeyeceği kadar çok etkilendim bu öyküden.
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March 24, 2023
Average rating: 3.75 stars
1/ A promise fulfilled 3 stars
2/ One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji 3 stars 3/ schoolgirl 4 stars
4/ Cherry Leaves and the Whistler 3 stars
5/ run Melos 4 stars
6/Eight Scenes from Tokyo 5 stars
7/ one snowy night 3.5 stars
This book of short stories can make you all sob and think, then it shows you cute, funny scenes to put a smile on your face. This man had such a way with writing😞💕
1/ A promise fulfilled 3 stars
2/ One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji 3 stars 3/ schoolgirl 4 stars
4/ Cherry Leaves and the Whistler 3 stars
5/ run Melos 4 stars
6/Eight Scenes from Tokyo 5 stars
7/ one snowy night 3.5 stars
This book of short stories can make you all sob and think, then it shows you cute, funny scenes to put a smile on your face. This man had such a way with writing😞💕
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October 15, 2015Ignore the title story-- a somewhat cute bit of hero worship (Dazai worshipping Schiller worshipping Greeks)-- and lap up how glorious everything else is. Osamu Dazai doesn't get read much outside his native Japan, it seems, which is damn foolish. These are some high-water marks of Japanese short fiction, especially "Schoolgirl," which (somehow) got published as a separate book despite its 40-page length. If you can track a volume of this edition down, which isn't the easiest task outside Japan, apparently, it's well worth it.
November 16, 2024
بدو ملوس/نشر طلوع مجد
اصل این کتاب حجم بیشتری نسبت به اونچه در طاقچه خوندم داره،
نمیدونم آیا به طور کامل ترجمه نشده و یا ای بوکش ناقص هست و مشکل داره؟!!
نسخه ای که فعلا از این کتاب توی طاقچه موجوده، مجموعه ای از چهار داستان کوتاهه که یکی از اونها همین داستان بدو ملوس هست که اسم کتاب ازش گرفته شده..
هر چهار داستان برخلاف رمان های دازای، پایان خوشی داشتن و سرشار از حس خوب و امید بودن
که خب برای کسانی که با دازای، قلمش و فضای تاریک، سیاه و اندوهبار کتابهاش آشنایی داشته باشن تجربه ی خوانش این کتاب میتونه جالب و متفاوت باشه!
من واقعا هر چهار داستان رو دوست داشتم و از بابت اینکه کتاب ناقصه خیلی متاسف شدم! :(
توی هر ریویویی که برای کتابهای دازای نوشتم اشاره کردم و باز هم میگم که این بشر، نویسنده ی محبوب منه و خیلی با شخص خودش و شخصیت کتابهاش که شبیه به خودش هستن همذات پنداری میکنم!!
این کتاب هم پنجمین کتاب ترجمه شده ای بود که از دازای خوندم و واقعا احساس افسردگی میکنم، چون در حال حاضر کتاب دیگه ای که از این نویسنده به فارسی ترجمه شده باشه، موجود نیست…
اصل این کتاب حجم بیشتری نسبت به اونچه در طاقچه خوندم داره،
نمیدونم آیا به طور کامل ترجمه نشده و یا ای بوکش ناقص هست و مشکل داره؟!!
نسخه ای که فعلا از این کتاب توی طاقچه موجوده، مجموعه ای از چهار داستان کوتاهه که یکی از اونها همین داستان بدو ملوس هست که اسم کتاب ازش گرفته شده..
هر چهار داستان برخلاف رمان های دازای، پایان خوشی داشتن و سرشار از حس خوب و امید بودن
که خب برای کسانی که با دازای، قلمش و فضای تاریک، سیاه و اندوهبار کتابهاش آشنایی داشته باشن تجربه ی خوانش این کتاب میتونه جالب و متفاوت باشه!
من واقعا هر چهار داستان رو دوست داشتم و از بابت اینکه کتاب ناقصه خیلی متاسف شدم! :(
توی هر ریویویی که برای کتابهای دازای نوشتم اشاره کردم و باز هم میگم که این بشر، نویسنده ی محبوب منه و خیلی با شخص خودش و شخصیت کتابهاش که شبیه به خودش هستن همذات پنداری میکنم!!
این کتاب هم پنجمین کتاب ترجمه شده ای بود که از دازای خوندم و واقعا احساس افسردگی میکنم، چون در حال حاضر کتاب دیگه ای که از این نویسنده به فارسی ترجمه شده باشه، موجود نیست…
January 13, 2022
1. A Promise Fulfilled: 3/5
A short story about the main character who befriend a doctor and often comes to visit at his house. There, he meets a wife of a patient who determined to be healthy again. This story is said to be the turning point of Dazai's life and career.
Reading this story is like sitting in a garden and sipping tea at late afternoon. Even the setting already feels like that. Love how Dazai describes his experience of encountering different types of people during his short visit to the doctor's house. This vignette, a lyrical, humorous, epiphanic affirmation of life, seems to symbolize Dazai's determination to live on and keep writing.
2. One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji: 4/5
A story about Dazai's experience of his stay as Misaka Pass. This is closely related to his experience on seeing Mountain Fuji in different views (either from his own or other people). I really love how he writes and portrays Mount Fuji as if it's a living thing. He gives human characteristics to the view that he sees and it makes the story goes interesting and humorous.
The part that I really like from the story:
I have nothing worth boasting about. No learning to speak of. No talent. My body's a mess, my heart impoverished. Only the fact that I've known suffering, enough suffering to feel qualified to let these youths call me "Sensei" without protesting-that's all I have, the only straw of pride I can cling to. But it's one I'll never let go of. A lot of people have written me off as a spoiled, selfish child, but how many really know how I've suffered inside?
3. Schoolgirl: 4/5
This story is told from a girl point of view. It is about her daily life and how she sees things and what she experiences. At first, I was quite annoyed with her thoughts because she's so judgy. But as the story goes, I find myself being in her shoes and feel the same things. She's just a girl who wants affection and love from her mother, she just lost her father and her sister is already married. She is just a lonely kid growing up without much love from people close to her. She doesn't feel happy. She's still waiting for happiness to come, yet she don't know when, or if it will ever come. She feels things are the same every day, going round and round without anything exciting, and this made her life really dull. I know that feeling too well. It makes me want to hug her.
Part I like:
Some of us, in our daily depressions and rages, were apt to stray, to become corrupted, irreparably so, and then our lives would be forever in disorder. There were even some who would resolve to kill themselves. And when that happened, everyone would say, Oh, if only she had lived a little longer she would have known, if she were a little more grown up she would have figured it out. How saddened they would all be. But if those people were to think about it from our perspective, and see how we had tried to endure despite how terribly painful it all was, and how we had even tried to listen carefully, as hard as we could, to what the world might have to say, they would see that, in the end, the same bland lessons were always being repeated over and over, you know, well, merely to appease us. And they would see how we always experienced the same embarrassment of being ignored.
Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to go to sleep believing that it will surely come, tomorrow it will come.
Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late.
4. Cherry Leaves and the Whistler - 5/5
A story about an older sister who lost his sister due to an illness. During the time that the younger sister had left, she exchanges letter with a young man, whom she has never met. And one day, the letter contains a shocking news, that the older sister burns it without giving it to the younger sister.
THIS STORY HAD ME CRYING HUWAAAA THE SISTERS RELATIONSHIP SOBSOB
All the things I was thinking about were painful things, so painful I could scarcely breathe. In agony, I walked on.
5. Run, Melos!: 5/5
I came to know this story from Bungo to Alchemist. This story is about Melos who is determined to prove to the king that trust between humans still exist. The story is so inspiring and heartwarming. Melos determination and the trust to his friend, I'M SO TOUCHED! The ending is quite funny too hahaha
My favorite part:
There is still time before sunset. Someone waits for me. Patiently, never doubting me, he waits for my return. I have his trust. My life? It counts for nothing. But this is not time to seek forgiveness with my own death. I must prove worthy of this trust. That, for now, is everything. Run, Melos!
6. Eight Scenes from Tokyo - 4/5
I think this one is closely related to 'No Longer Human'. And this torn me again.
I wonder what the turning point was. What was it that made me decide I must go on living, that gave me the strength others take for granted?
7. One Snowy Night - 3/5
This is quite cute and funny hahaha I have nothing to say about it~
Overall, I love how the stories are so realistic (only Run, Melos! is a bit different but it is still realistic). It is nice to read something like this sometimes, to reflect and ponder upon our lives.
A short story about the main character who befriend a doctor and often comes to visit at his house. There, he meets a wife of a patient who determined to be healthy again. This story is said to be the turning point of Dazai's life and career.
Reading this story is like sitting in a garden and sipping tea at late afternoon. Even the setting already feels like that. Love how Dazai describes his experience of encountering different types of people during his short visit to the doctor's house. This vignette, a lyrical, humorous, epiphanic affirmation of life, seems to symbolize Dazai's determination to live on and keep writing.
2. One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji: 4/5
A story about Dazai's experience of his stay as Misaka Pass. This is closely related to his experience on seeing Mountain Fuji in different views (either from his own or other people). I really love how he writes and portrays Mount Fuji as if it's a living thing. He gives human characteristics to the view that he sees and it makes the story goes interesting and humorous.
The part that I really like from the story:
I have nothing worth boasting about. No learning to speak of. No talent. My body's a mess, my heart impoverished. Only the fact that I've known suffering, enough suffering to feel qualified to let these youths call me "Sensei" without protesting-that's all I have, the only straw of pride I can cling to. But it's one I'll never let go of. A lot of people have written me off as a spoiled, selfish child, but how many really know how I've suffered inside?
3. Schoolgirl: 4/5
This story is told from a girl point of view. It is about her daily life and how she sees things and what she experiences. At first, I was quite annoyed with her thoughts because she's so judgy. But as the story goes, I find myself being in her shoes and feel the same things. She's just a girl who wants affection and love from her mother, she just lost her father and her sister is already married. She is just a lonely kid growing up without much love from people close to her. She doesn't feel happy. She's still waiting for happiness to come, yet she don't know when, or if it will ever come. She feels things are the same every day, going round and round without anything exciting, and this made her life really dull. I know that feeling too well. It makes me want to hug her.
Part I like:
Some of us, in our daily depressions and rages, were apt to stray, to become corrupted, irreparably so, and then our lives would be forever in disorder. There were even some who would resolve to kill themselves. And when that happened, everyone would say, Oh, if only she had lived a little longer she would have known, if she were a little more grown up she would have figured it out. How saddened they would all be. But if those people were to think about it from our perspective, and see how we had tried to endure despite how terribly painful it all was, and how we had even tried to listen carefully, as hard as we could, to what the world might have to say, they would see that, in the end, the same bland lessons were always being repeated over and over, you know, well, merely to appease us. And they would see how we always experienced the same embarrassment of being ignored.
Tomorrow will probably be another day like today. Happiness will never come my way. I know that. But it's probably best to go to sleep believing that it will surely come, tomorrow it will come.
Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late. The thought occurred to me as I lay there. You wait and wait for happiness, and when finally you can't bear it any longer, you rush out of the house, only to hear later that a marvelous happiness arrived the following day at the home you had abandoned, and now it was too late. Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late.
4. Cherry Leaves and the Whistler - 5/5
A story about an older sister who lost his sister due to an illness. During the time that the younger sister had left, she exchanges letter with a young man, whom she has never met. And one day, the letter contains a shocking news, that the older sister burns it without giving it to the younger sister.
THIS STORY HAD ME CRYING HUWAAAA THE SISTERS RELATIONSHIP SOBSOB
All the things I was thinking about were painful things, so painful I could scarcely breathe. In agony, I walked on.
5. Run, Melos!: 5/5
I came to know this story from Bungo to Alchemist. This story is about Melos who is determined to prove to the king that trust between humans still exist. The story is so inspiring and heartwarming. Melos determination and the trust to his friend, I'M SO TOUCHED! The ending is quite funny too hahaha
My favorite part:
There is still time before sunset. Someone waits for me. Patiently, never doubting me, he waits for my return. I have his trust. My life? It counts for nothing. But this is not time to seek forgiveness with my own death. I must prove worthy of this trust. That, for now, is everything. Run, Melos!
6. Eight Scenes from Tokyo - 4/5
I think this one is closely related to 'No Longer Human'. And this torn me again.
I wonder what the turning point was. What was it that made me decide I must go on living, that gave me the strength others take for granted?
7. One Snowy Night - 3/5
This is quite cute and funny hahaha I have nothing to say about it~
Overall, I love how the stories are so realistic (only Run, Melos! is a bit different but it is still realistic). It is nice to read something like this sometimes, to reflect and ponder upon our lives.
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January 22, 202118:45
“Your wish has been fulfilled. You have subdued my heart. Trust between men is not just an empty illusion. I, too, would be your friend. Say you will let the league of love be three.”
“Your wish has been fulfilled. You have subdued my heart. Trust between men is not just an empty illusion. I, too, would be your friend. Say you will let the league of love be three.”
August 9, 2024
Benim okuduğum basımda sırasıyla “Koş Melos!”, “Günün İlk Işıkları” ve “Villon’un Karısı” isimli üç öykü bulunmakta. Öyküler güzeldi ve anlatımı hoştu. Ama ikinci öykü şak diye birden bitiverdi. Sebebini anlayamadım. O yüzden üç yıldız verdim.
November 11, 2023
dazaiın tüm hikayelerinde ablasını soyması hakkında,,,, kamisama sabır versin o ablalara
January 31, 2024
Osamu Dasai menjadi salah satu penulis yang karyanya cukup banyak dicari pembaca kurun waktu 2022 - 2023. Novelnya "No Longer Human" laris manis dan bahkan diterbitkan oleh empat penerbit Indonesia dalam rentang waktu yang hampir bersamaan (Penerbit Basabasi, Mai, Kakatua, dan Odysei). Dasai seperti mampu menangkap dan menyalurkan ekspresi gelap jiwa manusia ke dalam novelnya. Dengan tegas, ia seperti mencela segala di sekitarnya dan memilih untuk berjalan di rutenya sendiri. Bersama Yukio Mishima dan Yasunari Kawabata, Dasai termasuk deretan penulis Jepang abad ke-20 yang tewas bunuh diri. Pengarang Jepang idolanya, yakni Rynosuke Akutagawa, juga tewas bunuh diri.
"Olahraga itu bodoh, dan saya tak pernah merasa ingin terlibat." (61)
Ulasan di. https://dionyulianto.blogspot.com/202...
"Olahraga itu bodoh, dan saya tak pernah merasa ingin terlibat." (61)
Ulasan di. https://dionyulianto.blogspot.com/202...
January 20, 2021
But my strength has left me, my spirit is exhausted. Cursed be my fate! My name will be an object of ridicule. If I am to collapse here now, it will be as though I’d done nothing in the first place.
Membaca ini karena:
1. Pendek
2. Tertarik setelah baca resensinya Oreki yang dimuat di 'Imasara Tsubasa to Iwaretemo'.
Setelah dibaca, rasanya ini emang khas klasik banget. Agak kaget ternyata Dazai juga bisa nulis cerita semacam ini (meski cuma semacam re-telling aja). Terus jadi makin kagum sama Oreki yang bisa menemukan sudut pandang baru dari cerita ini, padahal dia bikin resensi itu waktu kelas 1 SMP. Emang orang jenius mah beda. Katanya, Melos sebenernya nggak perlu lari; cukup jalan biasa aja pasti nyampe kok, asal dia bisa manage waktu aja. Komentar itu bikin saya teringat diri sendiri, yang seharusnya bisa jalan santai aja tapi memilih untuk lari-lari menjelang deadline.
Membaca ini karena:
1. Pendek
2. Tertarik setelah baca resensinya Oreki yang dimuat di 'Imasara Tsubasa to Iwaretemo'.
Setelah dibaca, rasanya ini emang khas klasik banget. Agak kaget ternyata Dazai juga bisa nulis cerita semacam ini (meski cuma semacam re-telling aja). Terus jadi makin kagum sama Oreki yang bisa menemukan sudut pandang baru dari cerita ini, padahal dia bikin resensi itu waktu kelas 1 SMP. Emang orang jenius mah beda. Katanya, Melos sebenernya nggak perlu lari; cukup jalan biasa aja pasti nyampe kok, asal dia bisa manage waktu aja. Komentar itu bikin saya teringat diri sendiri, yang seharusnya bisa jalan santai aja tapi memilih untuk lari-lari menjelang deadline.
October 22, 2023
Bu kitabı İthaki Yayınlarının baskısından okudum, kitap 3 farklı öyküden oluşmakta. Kitaba adını veren Koş Melos öyküsü dostluk ve güven üzerine iç ısıtan şirin bir öykü. Günün İlk Işıkları adlı öykü ise 2.dünya savaşı esnasında geçen, Amerikan bombardımanları altında gündelik yaşamı okuduğumuz bir metin. Son öykü ise Alkol bağımlısı bir kocaya sahip kadının hayatını düzene koymaya çalışmasını okuyoruz. Çok çarpıcı bir kitap değil ama keyifli bir gün geçirtebilecek seviyede.
February 9, 2014
delicate innocence.
October 27, 2023
İlk Dazai kitabım. Sonu 🥺😭
January 27, 2026
İthaki'den okudum bu eseri. içinde sadece 3 öykü var.
koş Melos
günün ilk ışıkları
villon'un karısı
üçü de çok kısa ve etkileyici tarzda. Sanki sıradandan etkileyiciye doğru sıralanmış gibi.
benim en sevdiğim Villon'un Karısı.
ilk defa bu eserlerinde yaşamak zorunda bırakılan, yaşayan ölülerden bahsediyor. ölüme daha uzak, arzusunu belki ölüme yaklaştıran lakin yaşamak için de çabalayan, bu tür bir dilemmada kalan karakterlerin hikayesi bu. ben beğendim 🙏🏻💫
koş Melos
günün ilk ışıkları
villon'un karısı
üçü de çok kısa ve etkileyici tarzda. Sanki sıradandan etkileyiciye doğru sıralanmış gibi.
benim en sevdiğim Villon'un Karısı.
ilk defa bu eserlerinde yaşamak zorunda bırakılan, yaşayan ölülerden bahsediyor. ölüme daha uzak, arzusunu belki ölüme yaklaştıran lakin yaşamak için de çabalayan, bu tür bir dilemmada kalan karakterlerin hikayesi bu. ben beğendim 🙏🏻💫
February 19, 2025
Öyküler cok iyiydi bence.. bir çırpıda bitiriverdim kitabı zaten. Osamu dazai'nin ilginç yaşam serüvenini daha yakından tanımak için iyi bir başlangıc oldu benim için. Diger öykülerini de okumak için sabırsızlanıyorum...
October 27, 2024
straigh firee oh my gaawwd okay rtc but itll be small bc i dislike reviewing story collections
November 13, 2025
Would you believe me if I said the last story is from the pov of a woman?
October 20, 2023
A Promise Fulfilled: 3.5
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji: 4
Schoolgirl: 5
Cherry Leaves and The Whistler: 5
Run, Melos! : 5
Eight Scenes from Tokyo: __
One snowy Night: 3.75
* Eight Scenes from Tokyo is literally his diary. I don't wanna rate the author's life on a scale of 5 ( kinda seems cruel to me to summarize someone's life and what all they've been through in a number. I'm just a reader who am I to judge anyway.)
Although I really enjoyed his writing and found myself quite pain stricken to keep on reading and also the way he described his misery which I unfortunately found myself relating to it, I'd hate to give a five star rating for his tragedic life.
So I'm just gonna leave it out empty :)))))
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji: 4
Schoolgirl: 5
Cherry Leaves and The Whistler: 5
Run, Melos! : 5
Eight Scenes from Tokyo: __
One snowy Night: 3.75
* Eight Scenes from Tokyo is literally his diary. I don't wanna rate the author's life on a scale of 5 ( kinda seems cruel to me to summarize someone's life and what all they've been through in a number. I'm just a reader who am I to judge anyway.)
Although I really enjoyed his writing and found myself quite pain stricken to keep on reading and also the way he described his misery which I unfortunately found myself relating to it, I'd hate to give a five star rating for his tragedic life.
So I'm just gonna leave it out empty :)))))
April 7, 2020
I've read The Setting Sun and No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu and also am in the middle of reading the collection of stories in Blue Bamboo, but I think this little collection of stories is my favorite of his so far. Not only because it shows his more humorous, sweet, and wholesome side, but also because there is that edge to some of his stories that's just as raw as his last and most held aloft piece of work. I do wish more people could read this part of his literary history and not just the tragic self-loathing fits he can spiral into. Dazai-sensei tried very hard to take in and give back the good he saw in the world, so I think I appreciate his attempts, albeit faltering the whole way, that much more.
March 23, 2016
Some of theese stories are so queer, that you would think it was a dream he had written down. The one i came for & the one i stayed for, was "Run Melos Run".
Ah— an alike story like the old greek original, but made into a childrens tale of trust and gladness. It is one of my most favourite books and will always be, so i suggest you take your time, to get into Osamu's mind of wonders and thoughts. For as all of them, were next told by his wife, wich were to hear all of theese every night before bed- her husband was very depressed as u could tell- and told the best stories of his century.
If u read it and don't like it, then you don't understand it.
As simple as that i would say.
Ah— an alike story like the old greek original, but made into a childrens tale of trust and gladness. It is one of my most favourite books and will always be, so i suggest you take your time, to get into Osamu's mind of wonders and thoughts. For as all of them, were next told by his wife, wich were to hear all of theese every night before bed- her husband was very depressed as u could tell- and told the best stories of his century.
If u read it and don't like it, then you don't understand it.
As simple as that i would say.
October 30, 2023
.... bizler kesinlikle anı yaşamayı prensip edinmiş olmamamıza rağmen, birileri gelip ta uzaktaki bir dağı işaret ederek oraya kadar gidebilsen manzarası çok iyidir derse, söyledikleri kesin öyledir deyip en ufak bir yalan kırıntısı olmadığını anlarız da; biz şuanda korkunç bir karın ağrısı ile cebelleşirken, çektiğimiz ağrıyı görmezden gelip yalnızca, hadi, biraz daha dayan, o dağın zirvesine çıkınca başaracaksın demekten öteye gidilmiyor ki. Birileri kesin yanılıyor. Yanılan sizlersiniz. ( syf: 124)
September 5, 2024
İçinde 3 farklı hikaye barındıran kısa ama etkili bir kitaptı.
İlk hikaye olan Koş Melos Dazai’nin kaleminden çıkamayacak kadar umutlu, insanların dürüstlüğünü ve sevginin önemini anlatan güzel bir hikayeydi. Günün İlk Işıkları ise yarıda bırakılmış hissi uyandırdı. Devam etmesi gerekirken havada kaldığı için çok bir şey hissettiremedi. Son hikaye olan Villon’un Karısı ise klasik bir Dazai hikayesiydi. Ayyaş sadakatsiz koca ve küçük düşen kadın. Tüm hikayeleri sürükleyici ve tek oturuşta okunabilecek bir kitaptı. 3,5/5
İlk hikaye olan Koş Melos Dazai’nin kaleminden çıkamayacak kadar umutlu, insanların dürüstlüğünü ve sevginin önemini anlatan güzel bir hikayeydi. Günün İlk Işıkları ise yarıda bırakılmış hissi uyandırdı. Devam etmesi gerekirken havada kaldığı için çok bir şey hissettiremedi. Son hikaye olan Villon’un Karısı ise klasik bir Dazai hikayesiydi. Ayyaş sadakatsiz koca ve küçük düşen kadın. Tüm hikayeleri sürükleyici ve tek oturuşta okunabilecek bir kitaptı. 3,5/5
September 2, 2023
aa ne degisik bi kitapti yahu. Ilk oyku beni nedense gerim gerim gerdi cocuk zamaninda yetisti mi yetismedi mi noldu diye, ikinci oykudeki adamin sacma karakteri ve bunu kendi agzindan ben zaten bok gibi bi insanim kivaminda anlatmasi baya ilgimi cekti. Ucuncu oyku Allah affetsin cok garipti. Ilginc bi kafanin urunu belli.
April 26, 2022
An optimistic take on friendship and loyalty. It read like a fairy tale but it was quite inspiring especially in a world that is quite cynical ( for good reasons).
The morality is a lot more complex than anticipated. Definitely recommend 😊
The morality is a lot more complex than anticipated. Definitely recommend 😊
August 22, 2022
dazainin her eserinde ondan bir parça bulunmasini seviyorum eski bir dostla karsilasmis gibi hissettiriyor kendisini kisisel olarak taniyormusum sanki öyle bir samimiyet
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