Hidup Yang Memalukan

by Osamu Dazai

Hidup yang Memalukan dan Cerita-Cerita Lain adalah kumpulan cerita pendek karya Osamu Dazai, salah satu penulis Jepang yang, tak perlu diragukan lagi, paling banyak dibaca di seluruh dunia. Karya-karyanya dibaca, dilulas, dialihmediakan dan dibicarakan bahkan jauh setelah kematiannya, dan akan tetap relevan bahkan hingga tahun-tahun yang akan mendatang.

Daftar isi cerita-cerita:

1. Kebohongan (Lies)
2. Kisah Anjing Peliharaan (The Story Of A Pet Dog)
3. Kenangan (Memories)
4. Malu (Shame)
5. Kisah Malam Bersalju (A Snowy Night’s Tale)

147 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2022

About the author

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.

Reviews

[fiza nasri]

5 cerita pendek bertema perhubungan, persahabatan, kekeluargaan dan gaya hidup. Paling gemar cerpen Kebohongan tentang kisah sahabat Dazai dan kritik sinisnya tentang isu keperibadian dan identiti, cerpen Kenangan yang berkisar hal keluarga dan kehidupan Dazai sendiri—ada konflik keluarga dan perihal masa lalu sewaktu di awal minatnya terhadap sastera dan bidang penulisan juga cerpen Malu dalam gabungan format epistolary yang sedikit sentimental dan bermain emosi— kisah seorang pembaca yang rasa tertipu dengan penulisan fiksyen seorang penulis kegemarannya.

Penceritaan cerpen-cerpennya banyak tertumpu kepada eksplorasi watak, agak bersahaja dan menarik kalau suka dengan tema ceritera harian. 3.5/5 bintang!

[Kailas Giorgio]

A Shameful Life continues Dazai’s raw examination of guilt, self-loathing, and moral collapse. The novel reflects a mind constantly haunted by its own failures, portraying a life weighed down by regret and an unending sense of inadequacy. Unlike traditional redemption narratives, this book refuses to offer comfort or resolution. The strength of this work lies in its brutal sincerity. Dazai does not romanticize suffering instead, he presents shame as something corrosive, slowly eroding the will to live with dignity. The prose is restrained yet emotionally devastating, making readers feel as though they are witnessing the unraveling of a soul in real time.

“My life has been filled with nothing but shame.”

[raven]

i somehow already can tell how osamu dazai look like in real life by reading this 160 page-ish short stories compilation😭