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Early Light
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. "Everything's gone," the father explains to his daughter: "Mr. Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, the Chino house, they all burned up," "Yeah, they all burned up," she said, still smiling.
"One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji," another autobiographical tale, is much more comic: Dazai finds himself unable to escape the famous views, the beauty once immortalized by Hokusai and now reduced to a cliche. In the end, young girls torment him by pressing him into taking their photo before the famous peak: "Goodbye," he hisses through his teeth, "Mount Fuji. Thanks for everything. Click."
And the final story is "Villon's Wife," a small masterpiece, which relates the awakening to power of a drunkard's wife. She transforms herself into a woman not to be defeated by anything, not by her husband being a thief, a megalomaniacal writer, and a wastrel. Single-handedly, she saves the day by concluding that "There's nothing wrong with being a monster, is there? As long as we can stay alive."
Odepsaný
Józó, hlavní hrdina románu Odepsaný, vypráví o svém na první pohled běžném a víceméně normálním životě, přestože se sám cítí neschopen porozumět lidským bytostem. Pokusy o smíření se s okolním světem začínají v raném dětství, pokračují na střední škole, kde se pro své okolí stává klaunem, aby zamaskoval odcizení, až nakonec vedou v dospělosti k pokusu o sebevraždu.
Autor románu, japonský spisovatel Osamu Dazai, bez sentimentu zaznamenává náhodné krutosti života a prchavé okamžiky lidské pospolitosti, porozumění a něhy. Jeden z nejprodávanějších japonských románů je důkazem toho, že významné literární dílo nemusí během let ztratit nic ze své nadčasové aktuálnosti.
Na stiahnutie
8,39 €
No Longer Human
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. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
The Setting Sun
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun
A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in English & manga for the first time!
This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai's classic novel, often considered his masterpiece.
Set in the aftermath of World War II, this is the story of Kazuko, a strong-willed young woman from an aristocratic family that has fallen into poverty since the war. The book follows Kazuko's journey as she and her family struggle to survive and adapt to the harsh new conditions. In addition to having to move from Tokyo to the countryside, where she is forced to work in the fields to support the family, she has to deal with a difficult divorce, the birth of a stillborn child, and the return of her drug-addicted brother from the war. This gripping and inspiring portrait of one woman's determination to survive in a society that is in the grip of a social and moral crisis tells one story in a fast-changing world, with universal themes that resonates with readers today.
After Soseki Natsume, Osamu Dazai is Japan's most popular writer. Dazai is enjoying a surge in interest among young people today thanks to the success of the manga, anime and film series Bungo Stray Dogs, whose protagonist, a detective named Osamu Dazai, is based on the real-life author.
**Recommended for readers ages 16+ due to mature themes and graphic content**
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16,95 €
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human
"I've led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me."
This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai's masterpiece NO LONGER HUMAN—the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan—tells the story of Yozo Oba, a young man growing up in Japan in the immediate aftermath of World War II, who finds himself caught between the disintegration of the traditions of his aristocratic provincial family and the impact of the new postwar world.
Oba is tormented by a failure to find any value in himself or in human relationships, despite being surrounded by women who love him. He creates the persona of a buffoon who mocks himself while entertaining others. But inside he is tortured, and as he moves from childhood to adulthood he becomes addicted to sex and alcohol. Largely autobiographical, No Longer Human explores Dazai's own sense of failure and alienation which drove him to self-destruct with alcohol and numerous suicide attempts.
Osamu Dazai (1909—1948) is Japan's second most popular novelist (after Soseki), and his works are seeing a huge surge in popularity among young people worldwide thanks to the success of the recent manga, anime and film series Bungo Stray Dogs, whose protagonist, a detective called Osamu Dazai, has similar character traits to Yozo Oba. Fans of manga and anime are turning to the original No Longer Human novel, whose themes of alienation from society and an inability to reconcile social appearances with inner self—told with great wit, irony and pathos—strike a deep chord among readers today.
**Recommended for readers ages 16+ due to mature themes and graphic content**
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18,95 €
Zapadající slunce
Román nazerá na spoločenský a morálny úpadok vládnucej japonskej vrstvy, najmä aristokracie. Krehkosť, emočná sila a poetika textu zaistila dielu, podobne ako autorov román Odepsaný (vydal Slovart, 2022), nadčasovosť, a výraz „trieda zapadajúceho slnka" sa dokonca ujal aj v hovorovej japončine.
The Girl Who Became A Fish: Maiden's Bookshelf
What dark fate awaits beneath the roaring falls?
Suwa and her father live alone on the slopes of Horsebare Mountain, eking out the most meager of existences. During the warmer months the beautiful waterfall brings a few sightseers, but when winter comes there is only solitude. Suwa would do anything to escape the life to which her father has resigned himself. And the lure of the river is strong...
This early classic from the author of Japan’s greatest modern novel is a dark, elliptical tale of hopelessness that weaves the folklore of the mountains into an anti-coming-of-age story as vividly relevant today as it was when it was written nearly a hundred years ago.
Vypredané
23,95 €
Odepsaný
Józó, hlavní hrdina románu Odepsaný, vypráví o svém na první pohled běžném a víceméně normálním životě, přestože se sám cítí neschopen porozumět lidským bytostem. Pokusy o smíření se s okolním světem začínají v raném dětství, pokračují na střední škole, kde se pro své okolí stává klaunem, aby zamaskoval odcizení, až nakonec vedou v dospělosti k pokusu o sebevraždu.
Autor románu, japonský spisovatel Osamu Dazai, bez sentimentu zaznamenává náhodné krutosti života a prchavé okamžiky lidské pospolitosti, porozumění a něhy. Jeden z nejprodávanějších japonských románů je důkazem toho, že významné literární dílo nemusí během let ztratit nic ze své nadčasové aktuálnosti.
Schoolgirl
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 professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.
