Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was a 20th century Japanese novelist.
"Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the
emo chic of this cultural moment."
*Andrew Martin - The New York Times*
"Seventy-five years later, No Longer Human still reads with an apt
urgency. As the musician Patti Smith once put it, Dazai 'wrote at
the pace of a dying man, yearning for ... the solution to an
unresolved equation.'"
*Jane Yong Kim - The Atlantic*
"No Longer Human is his masterpiece, though all his work is worthy.
Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self described delinquent, yet
he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe. "
*Patti Smith*
"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those
things in myself that I most want to hide."
*Yukio Mishima*
"From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings
may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant."
*Yasunari Kawabata*
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