Dazai Osamu

Crackling Mountain

Autobiographical fragment exploring artistic sensibility and isolated mountain childhood

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Dazai Osamu

Confessional novelist of the Buraiha (decadent school) whose autobiographical fiction charted his own self-destruction. No Longer Human is one of Japan's best-selling novels, a harrowing study of alienation and shame.

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