The Japan TimesThe popular cozy and quirky fiction showed no signs of decline, but there were two big surprises from two ghostly figures — Uketsu and Osamu Dazai. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/14/books/japanese-literature-2025/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #japaneseliterature #2025inreview #translatedliterature #fiction #uketsu #osamudazai #sayakamurata #akutagawaprize
“There’s a strange closeness you feel when reading (Osamu) Dazai, as if you know him, as a friend,” says "Retrograde" translator Leo Elizabeth Takada. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/09/22/books/osamu-dazai-new-translations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #osamudazai #translation #japaneseliterature #books #literature #sambett #davidboyd
bilal azad ♈☀️
Waywords Studio𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 -
While Booth offers more hour-to-hour details and less reflection than I would like, his travelogue of walking rural Japan through its literary and military history is remarkable, memorable, and genuinely enlightening.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #alanbooth #lookingforthelost #travelogue #japan #ruraljapan #osamudazai
Review: "Looking for the Lost" by Alan Booth -
Alberto ChimalUn #cuento estremecedor del #narrador japonés Osamu Dazai, autor de "Indigno de ser humano".
Dentro de la #antología virtual de mi sitio #LasHistorias.
https://www.lashistorias.com.mx/index.php/ubasute-cuento-osamu-dazai/
#OsamuDazai #literatura #libroverso #literaverso #cuentos #narrativa #NarrativaBreve
Dentro de la #antología virtual de mi sitio #LasHistorias.
https://www.lashistorias.com.mx/index.php/ubasute-cuento-osamu-dazai/
#OsamuDazai #literatura #libroverso #literaverso #cuentos #narrativa #NarrativaBreve
Dan WagstaffJust shared this elsewhere, so I’m going to post it here too — a NYT article from earlier this year on the popularity of Osamu Darzai’s novel No Longer Human (gift link)
Laurie Raye 🍵Dazai’s School Notebooks, including his doodles of his wife and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, are now available over at the Internet Archive:
https://yobanashicafe.com/2024/12/04/dazais-school-notebooks/
#YobanashiCafe #dazaiosamu #dazai #osamudazai #akutagawa #JapaneseLiterature
Just saw a really wonderful review for Retrogression that lifted my spirits!
"...you can clearly feel the translator's dedication and willingness to portray Dazai in the right way..."
Full review: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCzd9xQIi2P
Suzume on Instagram: "I started "Retrogression" as an ebook, but after reading the introduction I decided I needed a physical copy. Why? Because you can clearly feel the translator's dedication and willingness to portray Dazai in the right way just from that introduction! And when I got the book... it was so small! It's a bunko format. But I'm not complaining, I find it cute like that. But let's get to the point now. "Retrogression" revolves around the Akutagawa Prize, which Dazai didn't win in 1935. It includes four short stories of "Retrogression" (Butterflies; The Thief; The Duel; The Black Girl) as well as some comments by Kawabata Yasunari, Satō Haruo and Dazai himself. Then there's also Dazai's "Diary of My Distress"; and "Human Lost" which documents the month he spent in Musashino Mental Hospital. Dazai submitted "Retrogression" and "The Flowers of Buffoonery" for the Akutagawa Prize, and to be honest, I'm surprised it was the former that made it through to the final round. The stories in "Retrogression" were... just fine in my opinion. I much prefer "The Flowers of Buffoonery" and Satō Haruo (one of the selection committees) thought the same. Seemingly it was Kawabata who decided against it, as it was somewhat lacking due to an "unpleasant cloud hanging over the writer's personal life". With that I'm not really surprised that Dazai was upset and held a grudge. That being said, I feel like his later "I'll stab him!" is often portrayed as an actual threat directed at Kawabata instead of just a passing thought right after he got the news. That's why I'm really glad this book includes the full letter to Kawabata. And then Kawabata's response. It was really fascinating to get the (more or less) full story about 'the Akutagawa Prize incident' and not just 'Dazai wanted to win, because Akutagawa was his idol, and when he didn't, he was angry and upset and wanted to stab Kawabata'. As for the "Diary of My Distress" and "Human Lost", they were also an interesting read. Some parts were kinda chaotic, some kind of funny... and some really sad, especially when he was talking about desperately wanting to go home or craving for some company... [a bit more in the comment]"
chuchuchuuuya on November 25, 2024: "I started "Retrogression" as an ebook, but after reading the introduction I decided I needed a physical copy. Why? Because you can clearly feel the translator's dedication and willingness to portray Dazai in the right way just from that introduction! And when I got the book... it was so small! It's a bunko format. But I'm not complaining, I find it cute like that. But let's get to the point now. "Retrogression" revolves around the Akutagawa Prize, which Dazai didn't win in 1935. It includes four short stories of "Retrogression" (Butterflies; The Thief; The Duel; The Black Girl) as well as some comments by Kawabata Yasunari, Satō Haruo and Dazai himself. Then there's also Dazai's "Diary of My Distress"; and "Human Lost" which documents the month he spent in Musashino Mental Hospital. Dazai submitted "Retrogression" and "The Flowers of Buffoonery" for the Akutagawa Prize, and to be honest, I'm surprised it was the former that made it through to the final round. The stories in "Retrogression" were... just fine in my opinion. I much prefer "The Flowers of Buffoonery" and Satō Haruo (one of the selection committees) thought the same. Seemingly it was Kawabata who decided against it, as it was somewhat lacking due to an "unpleasant cloud hanging over the writer's personal life". With that I'm not really surprised that Dazai was upset and held a grudge. That being said, I feel like his later "I'll stab him!" is often portrayed as an actual threat directed at Kawabata instead of just a passing thought right after he got the news. That's why I'm really glad this book includes the full letter to Kawabata. And then Kawabata's response. It was really fascinating to get the (more or less) full story about 'the Akutagawa Prize incident' and not just 'Dazai wanted to win, because Akutagawa was his idol, and when he didn't, he was angry and upset and wanted to stab Kawabata'. As for the "Diary of My Distress" and "Human Lost", they were also an interesting read. Some parts were kinda chaotic, some kind of funny... and some really sad, especially when he was talking about desperately wanting to go home or craving for some company... [a bit more in the comment]".
¿Ya conocen la #antología de #cuento de Las Historias? El año que viene cumple 20. Uno de los más de 200 textos que contiene es este #relato tremendo del japonés Osamu Dazai.
https://www.lashistorias.com.mx/index.php/ubasute-cuento-osamu-dazai/
#literaverso #libroverso #OsamuDazai #literatura #narrativa #escritores
Maria OiraDeath is a part of life
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