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Osamu dazai early light6/30/2023 Readers who frequent Dazai will find themselves on familiar ground in the latest collection of his work in translation, Early Light. Most of his writing is, if not strictly autobiographical, at least deeply influenced by his own life experiences. Their bodies were discovered on what would have been his thirty-ninth birthday.Įarly Light, Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (trans), Ralph McCarthy (trans) (New Directions, September 2022)ĭazai’s biography is so interesting to readers in part because Dazai was also a master manipulator of the semi-autobiographical I-novel genre-in many ways, his fiction is his biography. He attempted suicide with multiple lovers, and eventually succeeded in 1949. He developed addictions to alcohol and opioids. He had a complex, decade-long relationship with an apprentice geisha. He began writing as a high school student, moved by the suicide of the great Japanese short story writer, Ryonosuke Akutagawa in 1927.ĭazai is a writer of great genius, as remembered for his colorful life story as he is for his fiction. He was born in 1909, at the end of Japan’s era of rapid modernization known as the Meiji Period. Osamu Dazai is one of Japan’s most celebrated modern writers.
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