Screen LibraryA shameful life /
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. Parallelin...
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Stone Bridge Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Berkeley, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English Japanese |
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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 who spends his time in increasing isolation and debauchery. His doomed love affairs, suicide attempts, and constant fear of revealing his true |
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Translation of: Ningen Shikkaku. "Originally published in Japanese as Ningen Shikkaku in 1948"--Colophon. "Previously published as No longer human." "Except on the cover and tite page, Japanese names in this book appear as family-name first." |
| Carrier Form: | 141 pages ; 18 cm |
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9781611720440 (paperback) : 1611720443 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PL825 |
| CLC: | I313.45 |
| Call Number: | I313.45/D277 |
| Contents: | Preface -- The first journal -- The second journal -- The third journal -- Epilogue -- Translator's afterword. |