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    Osamu Dazai

    Osamu Dazai was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.

    Osamu Dazai

    Osamu Dazai was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.

    Books by Osamu Dazai

    • Self-Portraits: Stories

      Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

      Paperback, 2024

      Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraitsshows the legendary writer at his best—and his worst

    • Self-Portraits: Stories

      Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

      E Book

      Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraitsshows the legendary writer at his best—and his worst

    • The Beggar Student

      Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett

      Paperback, 2024

      For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer

    • The Beggar Student

      Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett

      E Book

      For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer

    • No One Knows

      Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

      Paperback, 2025

      Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in English

    • No One Knows

      Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

      E Book

      Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in English

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