![]() ![]() Donald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English andJapanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was thefirst non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness - Dazai Osamu Dazai joins the ADA but it seems his past wont stop hunting him until he makes peace with it so his. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct. The devastating account of a young Japanese man caught between the collapse of traditional ideas and the onset of encroaching. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture. ![]() Biography: OSAMU DAZAI was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan.Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation. ![]() Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation. ![]()
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