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	Dazai Osamu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Osamu Dazai (太宰治 Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 in Aomori Prefecture - June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author.
		Dazai was born Shuji Tsushima (津島修治), the eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner in Tsugaru, a remote corner of Japan at the northern tip of Tohoku.
		Dazai's works are characterized by a profound pessimism, not surprising from an author who, after several unsuccessful attempts, eventually killed himself days before he turned 39.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dazai_Osamu (1104 words)

	Osamu Dazai -- A Brief Biography
		Though Osamu Dazai may be neither as popular nor as widely read as classic Japanese novelists like Mishima or Kawabata, he is considered by many Japanese to be a national treasure.
		Dazai was born Shuji Tsushima in the town of Kanagi on June 19, 1909.
		Dazai's grandmother hated the idea of her grandson marrying a geisha, and her opposition caused the marriage to be called off.
	www.journalism.ryerson.ca /online/mosaic/fishw/Dazai_bio_page.htm (861 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Dazai rejected the idealistic circle of authors with aristocratic pretensions and joined for a time the communist movement.
		Dazai was born in Kanagi, in northern Honshu, as the tenth of eleven children.
		Dazai's works attracted a large and dedicated readership for whom his troubled life, spirit of rebelliousness and depiction of the lost generation of youth, struck a responsive chord.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/dazai_osamu.html (719 words)

	Dazai Osamu
		Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of the most popular modern Japanese authors, who wrote such novels as "Shayo" and "Ningen Shikkaku".
		In June, 1948, Dazai commited a double suicide with a widow who was in love with him, by getting drowned in a river after taking sleeping pills.
		This drama is based on the bold hypothesis that Dazai Osamu was actually killed by somebody.
	www.pymmik.com /dazai-osamu.html (437 words)

	Dazai, Osamu on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan, Dazai was noted for his ironic and gloomy wit, his obsession with suicide, and his brilliant fantasy.
		In the 1930s and 40s he wrote a number of subtle novels and short stories that are frequently autobiographical in nature.
		Dazai committed suicide while working on a novel entitled Good-bye.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Dazai-O1s.asp (371 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Blue Bamboo
		Osamu Dazai was born Tsushima Shuji on June 19, 1909, Kanagi, Aomori Prefecture, in northern Japan, the sixth son, and tenth of eleven children of a wealthy landowner and politician.
		Dazai was the literary voice of postwar Japan, when traditional values were discredited and the younger generation nihilistically rejected all of the past.
		The remaining story, "Romanesque," is one of Dazai's earliest, and tells the tale of a wizard, a fighter and a congenital liar, before having them meet in a bar and conclude they are all artists in their own way.
	www.sfsite.com /07a/bb107.htm (1071 words)

	Osamu Dazai: The Setting Sun - Køb Bøger: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dazai here installs a rather crude counter to his, and the character Naoji's, dissolution, namely Kazuko's desire to bear a child.
		Dazai's style is so different from that of western writers that I at first felt annoyed with his style.
		Dazai tells the story of a 30 year old woman from the upper class who has lost everything.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/0811200329\|books\| (899 words)

	Osamu Dazai: brief biography, dates and history
		Osamu Dazai, novelist, was born in Kanagi, Japan.
		Dazai attempted suicide several times in his life, and he finally succeeded in 1948 in a double suicide with his lover.
		Dazai published his first collection of short stories, BANNEN (THE TWILIGHT YEARS), when he was thirty.
	nmnm.essortment.com /osamudazaibiog_rxit.htm (186 words)

	Dazai, Osamu, Ningen Shikkaku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Mishima's Confession, however, there is the sense that the mask itself may be the "true self," i.e., the collapse of the myth of the true Self, the unchanging core of identity.
		Dazai does not explore this topic in the novel, although he admits that his childhood was all this matter of the clown mask.
		Dazai's crisis does not take place at the level of true/false self, but at the more primordial level of human/non-human.
	personal.psu.edu /staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/fiction/dazai_shikkaku.html (604 words)

	A POSTWAR TRANSFORMATION: DAZAI OSAMU’S “TOKATONTON” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dazai Osamu(1909-1948) was born in Kanagi in northern Japan as the tenth child of eleven children in 1909.
		Dazai was inspired to write “Tokatonton” by an actual letter he received from a man named Yasutomo Yujiro, a resident of Mito City in Ibaragi Prefecture.
		Unlike the former soldier in “Tokatonton” Dazai was able to reflect on the past in connection to the present situation because of his age and his special position in society.
	www68.homepage.villanova.edu /masako.nakagawa/tokatonton.htm (2131 words)

	Kanagi, Japan
		Pictured left is Shayokan, the house in which Osamu Dazai was born and raised.
		Even though Dazai wrote comparitively little about Kanagi, and did not even seem very fond of the place, he is honored and treasured by the town.
		Within a short walk from his house was Shayokan, as well as a temple, a monument and a statue, all dedicated to the memory of Dazai.
	www.journalism.ryerson.ca /online/mosaic/fishw/kanagi.htm (445 words)

	Dazai Osamu -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Born in northern Japan, the sixth son of a wealthy landowner and politician, Dazai often reverted to his background as material for his fiction.
		Dazai's first collection of short stories, Bannen (1936; “The Twilight Years”), showed him to be potentially a versatile writer of many styles and topics, but he tended toward the shishosetsu (“I,” or personal fiction) form, and the persona of the author was thenceforth to be seen in most of his fictional characters.
		Dazai was deeply concerned with his craft, and his stories were far from being mere confessional documents; nevertheless, his artistry was often obscured by the wide publicity given to his dissipation, a source of continued attraction, especially to youthful readers.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9029573 (701 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Setting Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Osamu Dazai's greatest sin was honesty, and an equal love of decadence mixed with self loathing.
		Culturally, the self indulgence of such dialogue was equally shocking, though some have suggested that Dazai's outer word reflects the inner most soul of the Japanese.
		Osamu Dazai, afterall, was the Japanese Albert Camus - - whimsical as well, and who painted pictures with words as greatly as Akira Kurasawa painted pictures on the screen.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0811200329 (636 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 83042542 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Japan, Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of the most famous of all modern writers, known not only for his writings but for his tumultuous life, which included expulsion from a wealthy family, complicated involvements with many women, and several suicide attempts, the last of which was successful.
		Dazai succeeded in transforming the actual events of his life into deceptively simple and emotionally intense stories, and he was somehow able to make his own pain and confusion intimate to the experience of his readers.
		The book concludes with translations of five of Dazai's most moving and emotionally expressive short stories, each a significant view of Dazai at a different point in his life, and a nonfiction novel, Tsugaru, about Dazai's return as an adult to his childhood home.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam022/83042542.html (294 words)

	No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
		This novel (inspired by Dazai's autobiography and written in the first person) tells the story of one person who feels since childhood utterly alien from his fellow human beings but learn to put a face to hide his deep sense of alienation and his despise for the hypocrisy of society.
		But Dazai also explore the sense of self-loathing and self-destruction and is therefore much darker (Camus sounds cheerful in comparison).
		Dazai is known as a dark post-war writer and indeed this is a dark novel.
	www.book-summary-review.com /No-Longer-Human-0811204812.htm (789 words)

	Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human - Køb Bøger: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dazai, he was a writer who the most influenced my split in my youth days.
		I had some closed sence of the main character, mostly Dazai himself I believe, such as the idea of he never feels hungry, he eats when he gets interested in the food or the cow's story.
		Dazai revealed his personal history and his unhealthy mind in this novel, even though there are some differences between them.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/0811204812\|books\| (811 words)

	Lit.Org - Writers resources, epublishing, zines, stories, authors, interviews, chat, links and more!
		Comment: Osamu Dazai in an author best known for his penetrating autobiographical novels set in the tragedy of post-war Japan.
		Dazai's style is light and capturing, and it is hard not to finish this book a few days after you crack the cover.
		Dazai combines the Western and Eastern influences together in a form that is enjoyable by both, yet beholden to neither.
	www.lit.org /bookstore/item/4770026102 (660 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: The Setting Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is Osamu Dazai's way to describe what is wrong with the world.
		Apparently, the suicide note in the novel is based on one of his [unsuccessful attempts].
		However, it stands second to Dazai's No Longer Human, which shines as a true example of innermost Japanese thought and reaction to the modern world.
	amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0811200329/customer-reviews (850 words)

	Aozora Bunko: C - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chichi by Osamu Dazai (June 19, 1909–June 13, 1948)
		Chikukendan by Osamu Dazai (June 19, 1909–June 13, 1948)
		Chikusei by Osamu Dazai (June 19, 1909–June 13, 1948)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aozora_Bunko:_C (412 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 89024311 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan.
		In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context of Japanese literary history to provide a fresh view of major texts by this important literary figure.
		As shown here, Dazai's writings resist narrative and historical closure while he may be said to serve the Japanese literary establishment as both romantic decadent and representative scapegoat, his texts reveal a deconstructive edge through which his posthumous status as a monument of negativity is already perceived and undone.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/prin031/89024311.html (274 words)

	Aozora Bunko: Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Zakyou ni arazu by Osamu Dazai (June 19,1909 - June 13,1948)
		Zenzou wo omou by Osamu Dazai (June 19,1909 - June 13,1948)
		Zokutenshi by Osamu Dazai (June 19,1909 - June 13,1948)
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/a/ao/aozora_bunko__z.html (274 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy (Japan's Modern Writers Series) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) was, above all else, a master storyteller.
		Osamu Dazai in an author best known for his penetrating autobiographical novels set in the tragedy of post-war Japan.
		I read this book after reading Alan Booth's comments on Dazai and his life - so I have to admit, I was rather cynical.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/4770026102?v=glance (1115 words)

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	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This film portrays the latter half of the life of Dazai Osamu, one of the most important Japanese writers of the first half of the 20th century, focusing on how he survived repeated suicide or double suicide attempts.
		On June 19, 1949, the dead bodies of Dazai Osamu (Kawamura Ryuichi) and his lover Yamaguchi Tomie (Toyota Maho) surfaced in a tributary of the Tama River.
		After that, while continuing his activities as a writer, Dazai spends his days in debauchery, losing himself in alcohol and drugs, getting in and out of the hospital, and repeatedly attempting suicide.
	www.asianfilms.org /japan/picaresque.html (263 words)

	Dazai Osamu History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born into a wealthy family in Tsugaru, Aomori prefecture, Dazai Osamu showed a strong interest in writing as a student.
		In Dazai's seminal work, "Omoide" (Recollections), published in 1933, he employed his characteristic method of autobiographical storytelling; in "Omoide" the narrator struggles to find some worth in his existence.
		Lyons, Phyllis I. The Saga of Dazai Osamu.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/dazai-osamu-ema-02 (290 words)

	JPN 307 - Lecture 4/09/2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One characteristic of Dazai's writing is fragmentation and a lack of coherent unity.
		Dazai often uses a first person narrator and a confessional style of writing.
		What happened to Dazai when he finally got married and settled down?
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kohl/lec0409.html (120 words)

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	No Longer Human
		Dazai had the creative artistry of a great cameraman.
		His lens is often trained on moments of his own past, but thanks to his brilliant skill in composition and selection his photographs are not what we expect to find cluttering an album.
		There is nothing of the meandering reminiscer about Dazai; with him all is sharp, brief and evocative." -- Donald Keene
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0811204812 (179 words)

	Osamu Dazai, born in Japan, novelist, Tsugaru, No Longer Human June 19 in History
		Osamu Dazai, born in Japan, novelist, Tsugaru, No Longer Human June 19 in History
		Osamu Dazai, born in Japan, novelist, Tsugaru, No Longer Human
		The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1909/june_19_1909_72923.html (57 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Setting Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is not the first time Dazai based his work on existing literature Ð inc his fine comical adaptation of Hamlet.
		The main characterÕs mother is especially like Ranyevskaia Ð whose gullible nature leaves her unable to grasp the reality and abandons her to live within the nostalgia.
		For those that have some knowledge of the language and culture, Setting Sun would be tatemae, but No Longer Human is honne.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0811200329 (445 words)

	Japanorama's Modern Japanese Fiction
		Dazai Osamu, the pseudonym of Tsushima Shuji, was one of Japan's leading post-WW II novelists.
		Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Osamu
		The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study With Translations
	www.japanorama.com /fiction.html (1052 words)

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