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Más allá de su fama de enfant terrible y de su marcada inclinación por el suicidio, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) es sin ninguna duda uno de los máximos exponentes de la moderna literatura japonesa. A contracorriente siempre de las normas preestablecidas en una sociedad tan rígida y conservadora como la japonesa, Dazai se convirtió, a pesar de su origen aristocrático, en un auténtico paria. Su existencia estuvo signada por la vergüenza, la perplejidad,...
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Osamu Dazai is one of the most famous-and infamous-writers of 20th-century Japan. A Shameful Life (Ningen shikkaku) is his final published work and has become a bestselling classic for its depiction of the tortured struggle of a young man to survive in a world that he cannot comprehend. Paralleling the life and death of Dazai himself, the delicate weaving of fact and fiction remorselessly documents via journals the life of Yozo, a university student...
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Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted writers. Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent. The eleven stories in this collection of Japanese literature present the most fully rounded portrait available...
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