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(★)(Translated by James O´Brien)(Titulo en japones : 太宰治短編集[Dazai Osamu Tampen-shuu]／ ´Crackling Mountain and Other Stories´ features eleven outstanding works by Osamu Dazai, widely regarded as one of twentieth-century Japan´s most gifted writers and a master teller of tales. Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent. ´Crackling Mountain and Other Stories´ is a showcase of Dazai´s range of styles, from the poignant childhood recollections of ´Memories´, to the samurai buffoonery of ´A Poor Man´s Got His Pride´, to reworked folk classics such as the title story,´Crackling Mountain´. By turns hilarious, ironic, introspective, mystical and sarcastic, the eleven stories in this collection present the most fully rounded portrait available of a tragic, multifaceted genius of modern Japanese letters.／ ◆Osamu Dazai[1909-1948], the pen name of Shuji Tsushima, was born, the tenth of eleven children, into a family of wealthy landowners in northern Japan. He began writing short stories while studying French at Tokyo Imperial University and soon became well known among the younger generation for his excessive bohemian lifestyle. After World War II, he gained wide recognition in the West for his pessimistic novels, notably ´The Setting Sun[1947]´ and ´No Longer Human[1948]´. Despite his troubled life and rebellious spirit --he made several suicide attempts and eventually ended his life with a married lover-- Dazai wrote about a wide range of personal experiences in a simple and colloquial style.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ●Memories ●Undine ●Monkey Island ●Heed My Plea ●Melos, Run! ●On the Question of Apparel ●A Poor Man´s Got His Pride ●The Monkey´s Mound ●The Sound of Hammering ●Taking the Wen Away ●Crackling Mountain) |
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