Osamu Dazai

A Shameful Life

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Osamu Dazai is one of the most famous—and infamous—writers of 20th-century Japan. A Shameful Life (Ningen shikkaku) is his final published work and has become a bestselling classic for its depiction of the tortured struggle of a young man to survive in a world that he cannot comprehend. Paralleling the life and death of Dazai himself, the delicate weaving of fact and fiction remorselessly documents via journals the life of Yozo, a university student who spends his time in increasing isolation and debauchery. His doomed love affairs, suicide attempts, and constant fear of revealing his true self haunt the pages of the book and reveal a slow descent into madness. This dark tale nevertheless conveys something authentic about the human heart and its inability to find its true bearing.
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140 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
Translator
Mark Gibeau
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  • Andrea Poulainshared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💧Soppy

    Aprendí mucho sobre Dazai con este libro. Creo que es un must read de entre los japoneses

  • drgnnxshared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🚀Unputdownable

Quotes

  • drgnnxhas quoted5 years ago
    Human life is so full of pure, vivid, merry duplicity that I begin to think they don’t even realize they are deceiving one another.
  • b6163338672has quoted3 years ago
    little by little, I was transformed into an eccentric clown.

    I would do anything so long as it made people laugh, it didn’t matter what.
  • b6163338672has quoted3 years ago
    I’ve never heard anyone say that people live for money

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