Osamu Dazai

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956 - and now, for the first time, is available in audio, with the spellbinding narration of June Angela. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the...

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings.

いろいろな意味で、ちょっと切ない作品かと思います。時代は昭和。戦後の生き方を誰もが見いだせない中を健気に、しかし強く生きていく「妻」。

No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō...

「無頼派」「新戯作派」の破滅型作家を代表する昭和初期の小説家、太宰治の長編小説。初出は「新潮」［1947（昭和22）年］。母、かず子、直治、上原の四人を中心として、

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'Een leven vol schaamte heb ik geleid. Het dagelijks bestaan van mensen, daar krijg ik geen vat op.' Het zijn de eerste zinnen uit het dagboek van Yozo Oba, een jongeman die leeft in een steeds woeliger Japan. Zijn ouders zijn altijd afwezig en hij heeft moeite contact met leeftijdsgenoten te...

Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in EnglishNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful...

時代背景は昔だが、かず子と上原、そして直治の生き方は、今だからこそ現代の我々の生き方に問いを投げかける作品です。自分の生き方に自信のない人、不安な人、振り返りたい人にぜひ聴いてもらい作品です。

Uegnet som menneske er Osamu Dazais mesterværk fra 1948. Den er en af de mest læste bøger i Japan og er solgt i millioner af eksemplarer verden over. Uegnet som menneske er historien om Yōzō, som fra tidlig barndom bærer på en afgrundsdyb følelse af ikke at høre til. Han føler intet...

An old world is dying. One daughter must decide what survives after everything she knows falls apart. In postwar Japan, Kazuko's once-privileged family is losing its status, financial security, and place in society. As her mother declines and her brother struggles with his own turmoil, Kazuko...

Here to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai’s legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English. Beginning with “Memories” (which tells a tale of teenage love, based on the autobiographical events that inspired...

For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer. A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a...

「富士には月見草がよく似合う」で広く知られている作品です。富士の姿を軸に太宰の心情や人生観を投影した小品で、ユーモアや軽妙な語り口も作品の魅力となっています。

日本近現代の名作小説や詩を、朗読用に書き下ろされたオリジナルあらすじ台本で味わうシリーズ。人気・実力を兼ね備える、ベテランから新進気鋭の若手まで、バラエティに富んだ豪華声優陣でお届けします。

日本近現代の名作小説や詩を、朗読用に書き下ろされたオリジナルあらすじ台本とBGMや効果音も加味して味わうシリーズ。

【原作　太宰治】戦後の無頼派作家。代表作に「走れメロス」「津軽」「お伽草子」「人間失格」などがある。

Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, SELF-PORTRAITS shows the legendary writer at his best and worst.

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and...

恋女房に浮気されたショックで共に心中をはかり、共に生還し、離縁。傷心の日々からようやく立ち直りかけたころのお話である。