Name: Retrograde
Price: 14.98 EUR
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Author: Osamu Dazai
ISBN: 9781642735130

Type

Physical Book

Author

Osamu Dazai

Publisher

One Peace Books

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781642735130

Retrograde

Osamu Dazai (Author) · One Peace Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "Retrograde"

Three stories of the ruined and the lost: Osamu Dazai at his most tormented. This collection unearths the Japanese literary legend's most controversial and exhilarating early-career writing with first-time and original translations. " Retrograde" traces the life of an anguished youth in reverse; " Das Gemeine" features an aspiring literato with a dark past who hitches his wagon to an eccentric violinist; " Blossom-Leaves and the Spirit Whistle" tells of an old woman recalling the final breaths of her beautiful, sickly sister. Experience the twisted agony of the prose that propelled Dazai to the top of the literary world.

Osamu Dazai

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(Pseudonym of Tsushima Shuji; Kanagi, 1909 - Tokyo, 1948) Japanese writer. Born from the disillusionment prevalent in his country after the end of World War II, Osamu Dazai's last novels expressed the feelings of a generation that had witnessed the collapse of their traditional values: The Setting Sun (1947), perhaps his most famous work, focuses on the decline of the Japanese nobility after the defeat in the war, while his last book, No Longer Human (1948), narrates in an autobiographical tone the frustration over the national debacle. Known for his ironic and somber wit and the brilliant fantasy of his novels and stories, his obsession with suicide and his constant search for a deeper truth would make him a cult figure among the young readers of his country.

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