Dazai Osamu
Biographic Data
| ID | 275315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dazai Osamu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dazai |
| FAMILY NAME | Osamu |
| SIGNATURE | OSAMU D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cherries
It's not that I'm weak, it's that the suffering weighs down on me too heavily."This was said, in 1938, by a writer whose life and death are noted with public attention every year in June. The popularity of this author has not waned in Japan. Crowds gather on June 19 around the country in rituals of celebration and mourning. Given the personality of this man, it is not easy to separate the two
Asa. Morning
I Can Speak
AIN: a night of submission, a morning of resignation. Is this life a mere effort at resignation? An endurance of wretchedness? Day after day, my youth is thus gnawed away; and happiness-I have found it in wretched quarters. My song having lost its voice, I lived in idleness in Tokyo for a while, and then, quietly, I began to write something-not a song, but as it were a 'murmur of life'; thus I was little by little led by my work to realize how my…
Matsu. Waiting
Sange. Fallen Flowers
T NTENDING to use the title 'Heroic Death',1 I wrote it down on my copy paper, but it's such a very beautiful expression I began to feel that it would be too good for the title of my poor story. I erased the characters for 'Heroic Death' and changed the title to 'Fallen Flowers'.2 I parted with two friends this year. In early spring Mr. Mitsui died. After that, in May, Mr. Mita died, with honor, on a solitary island in the north. Both Mr. Mitsui …
Chichi. The Father
God tested Abraham, and said unto him, 'Abraham!' And Abraham said, 'Here am I.' God said, 'Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and offer him as a burnt offering upon the mountain.' So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his ass, placed his beloved only son Isaac on it, and went up to the foot of the Moriah mountain which God had indicated to him, took Isaac from the ass, laid the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac his son…
Mangan. Fulfilment of a Vow
T HIS is an incident that happened four years ago. I was spending the summer at a friend's house in Mishima, a harbor town on the Izu Peninsula, while writing a story called 'Romanesque'. One evening, I got on a bicycle after a few drinks under my belt and, while tearing up and down the streets, hurt myself. I ripped the skin of my right foot just above the ankle bone. The wound wasn't deep but, as I'd been drinking, it bled profuLsely and I ran …
Mother. Haha
Yuki no yo no Hanashi (A Snowy Night's Tale)
Sange. Fallen Flowers
T NTENDING to use the title 'Heroic Death',1 I wrote it down on my copy paper, but it's such a very beautiful expression I began to feel that it would be too good for the title of my poor story. I erased the characters for 'Heroic Death' and changed the title to 'Fallen Flowers'.2 I parted with two friends this year. In early spring Mr. Mitsui died. After that, in May, Mr. Mita died, with honor, on a solitary island in the north. Both Mr. Mitsui …
Yuki no yo no Hanashi (A Snowy Night's Tale)
Asa. Morning
I Can Speak
AIN: a night of submission, a morning of resignation. Is this life a mere effort at resignation? An endurance of wretchedness? Day after day, my youth is thus gnawed away; and happiness-I have found it in wretched quarters. My song having lost its voice, I lived in idleness in Tokyo for a while, and then, quietly, I began to write something-not a song, but as it were a 'murmur of life'; thus I was little by little led by my work to realize how my…
Matsu. Waiting
Sange. Fallen Flowers
T NTENDING to use the title 'Heroic Death',1 I wrote it down on my copy paper, but it's such a very beautiful expression I began to feel that it would be too good for the title of my poor story. I erased the characters for 'Heroic Death' and changed the title to 'Fallen Flowers'.2 I parted with two friends this year. In early spring Mr. Mitsui died. After that, in May, Mr. Mita died, with honor, on a solitary island in the north. Both Mr. Mitsui …
Chichi. The Father
God tested Abraham, and said unto him, 'Abraham!' And Abraham said, 'Here am I.' God said, 'Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and offer him as a burnt offering upon the mountain.' So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his ass, placed his beloved only son Isaac on it, and went up to the foot of the Moriah mountain which God had indicated to him, took Isaac from the ass, laid the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac his son…
Mangan. Fulfilment of a Vow
T HIS is an incident that happened four years ago. I was spending the summer at a friend's house in Mishima, a harbor town on the Izu Peninsula, while writing a story called 'Romanesque'. One evening, I got on a bicycle after a few drinks under my belt and, while tearing up and down the streets, hurt myself. I ripped the skin of my right foot just above the ankle bone. The wound wasn't deep but, as I'd been drinking, it bled profuLsely and I ran …
Mother. Haha
Cherries
It's not that I'm weak, it's that the suffering weighs down on me too heavily."This was said, in 1938, by a writer whose life and death are noted with public attention every year in June. The popularity of this author has not waned in Japan. Crowds gather on June 19 around the country in rituals of celebration and mourning. Given the personality of this man, it is not easy to separate the two
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