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like depressing dazai better Un recueil de contes populaires qui nous fait voyager et nous emmène dans un petit cocon hors du temps.
Je nai quune envie : me plonger encore plus dans loeuvre dOsamu Dazai !
Article : sitelink wordpress. com/ One of my favourite authors and some of his greatest work, Along with his short story collection Run! Melos this book collects a wide range of his best work from Judas' monologue reflecting on his betrayal to the quaint story of poverty ridden samurai celebrating Shogatsu Japanese New Year to revamped Fairy Tales that he concludes with suitably ambigious morals.
I can't recommend it highly enough, Ps. This was my second reading, Membaca karya Dazai yang beberapa kali cuba membunuh diri ini akhirnya mati membunuh diri dengan teman wanitanya, saya jangkakan pengalaman semacam rasa kosong, mundane, mendatar seperti yang rasa tatkala menelaah karya Murakami.


Wah, rupanya boleh tahan berwarnawarni cerpencerpen Dazai, Ada kepelbagaian emosi dan kekayaan persoalan melibatkan manusia dan juga haiwan, Dazai was at his finest of his signature selfmockery, absurdity, and humor in some of his retelling of tales and

some personal accounts in this collection.
When the lovers elope, their journey is described in terms that suggest a michiyuki, This type of literary scene, especially notable in the plays of Saikakus contemporary, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, evokes the beauty and pathos of a pair of lovers as they seek out a place to die.
In the final line of “The Monkeys Mound,” Dazai departs drastically from Saikakus original tale by sending his lovers off once more.
This time there is no attempt to render the poetic feeling of the michiyuki, the lovers now being past the stage of dying for one another.
Slick collection of stories from one of Japan's most significantth century authors, Dazai's "Crackling Mountain" is mostly a rich retelling of classic Japanese stories, reshaped to reflect and draw sense to World Warera Japan, leading, during, and following the war.


I've little to say about these stories as I am not familiar with the original texts they reappropriate.
I'm no scholar of Japanese literature, but I have read a certain quantity of anthologies where classic Japanese tales have been translated into English, yet still there was only one story in here that I recognized with any substance, with the rest being either completely new to me or ones I had only heard/read about in passing.
If you're a real hound for the classics, then maybe you'll be better off with this work but if you're catalog is smaller thancollections or so, chances are you'll be in the same, outoftheloop position I was.


There's something missing, anyway, I can see what Dazai is doing with these works it's really rather transparent/obvious, as ultimately he just seems to model the main hero either an alcoholic or depressed lunatic.
But these stories also retain the reserved and lessdetailed style of classic Japanese so there's nothing fun or overtly tragic about the heroes, or certainly not without knowing the classic source and what exactly Dazai's retelling is doing.


I really can't recommend this book as a casual read for a person unfamiliar with Japanese culture, history, and classic stories.
Just too distant there's much lost in translation, but even more so is there is no possible translation which could ameliorate the divide this book makes between someone familiar with its sources and those not.
the Judas x Jesus unrequited love au was shocking, but failed to cure the tism This collection of short stories, Crackling Mountain and Other Stories, by Dazai Osamu is a witty display of prose writing.
Many of his stories are retellings of older Japanese classics, With it he sets the criterion for the ingenious use of ironic humor, which, in the case of Dazai, is always dark.


The last story in this collection, Crackling Mountain delves into the notion of vengence.
The story is amusing with animals taking the lead roles, as they so often do in his narratives.
Here our main characters are a badger and a rabbit, representative of a man and a woman, as rendered by Dazai.
The badger escapes from a human couple who are about to make him into stew and in the process the old lady is hurt.
The rabbit learns of the incident and decides to take revenge, Throughout the whole story these two constantly try to out smart the other in a cunning tugofwar of the mind, and for very different ends.
The badger out of love tries to gain respect and affection and the rabbit out of malice tries to gain time and an opportunity to do ill.


Is there something to be learned from this story asks Dazai to his readers, He leaves us with these concluding words That sums up, briefly and without exaggeration, all of the world's woeful tales from the days of old.
In every woman dwells this cruel rabbit, while in every man a good badger always struggles against drowning.
Eleven outstanding short stories by Osamu Dazai, in a fluent and skillful translation, The best stories are:

"Hashire, Merosu" "Run, Melos,", A story about "trust," a perennial in school books in Japan, and an example of how Dazai used existing works here a Greek legend and a poem by Schiller, giving them an ironic twist.


"Omoide" "Memories,". Dazai's seminal work, the beginning of his career as a writer, Written in Shishosetsu style. Typical of Dazai is that, through repeatedly emphasizing his worthlessness, he still desperately clings to a glimmer of selfworth as in his last novel, No Longer Human.
"I wanted to set down, without the least ornamentation, all the evil I had done since childhood, " Together with other autobiographical stories which he together called Bannen "Final Years", it was meant as a literary suicide note, and inhe tried to hang himself in the mountains of Kamakura happily, he failed.


The book also contains several stories Dazai based on fairy tales probably as that was safe subject matter during the war years.
.stars. To me a disappointing read after I so thoroughly enjoyed his stories in Blue Bamboo, to which I gavestars.
I found most of thestories in this collection to be boring and to not make a whole lot of sense.
The translator, James OBrien, made introductory comments at the very beginning of the collection and also before each of thestories and some of his observations seemed to be in synch with what I was feeling about the stories.
For example, in the preface to the penultimate story “Taking the Wen Away” wen is a lump or protuberance on the body, O Brien says “But perhaps the long paragraph at the end merely leads the reader down a blind alley.
” And what reader doesnt want to be led down a blind alley while reading a book!!!
And:
“Dazai frequently ends a tale on an inconclusive notemost obviously when he has a narrator confess to bewilderment concerning the significance of the story he has just told.
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This is not acknowledged as a masterpieceI read it because I thought they would be like the stories in Blue Bamboo I liked so very much but this was not the case.
I will not give up on this author as I have heard good things on two other works of his that are considered to be modern day classics in Japanese Literature: The Setting Sunand No Longer Human.


Here are the titles of thestories, and I comment onof them that made it above my bar ofor more.
Not many as you can see, Memories.Undine.Monkey Island.Hear My PleaMelos, Run!,On the Question of ApparelA Poor Man Got His Pride,stars, I didnt get it The Monkeys Mound,The Sound of Hammering,Taking the Wen AwayCrackling Mountainstars

Hear My Plea: This is just fantastic.
If I could give this storyI would, It is an account from Judas Iscariot how he betrayed his friend and companion Jesus, He loved Jesus but could get annoyed at him for what I think are valid reasons, You remember the miracle in which Jesus was giving a long sermon to a crowd and they were hungry so he turnedloaves and fishes into a plenitude of food A miracle, right NopeJudas procured all the food and had to spend a buttload of money for it.
Who gets the credit Jesus, Who ends up getting bankruptedJudas, a gazillion, very clever
Melos, Run!: Melos is a village shepherd who plays his flute, A king is paranoid and is killing his followers because he is not trusting them, Weird but I liked it,.stars
On the Question of Apparel: Protagonist/narrator does not like to spend money on clothes, He is convinced whenever he puts on new or different clothes that bad things happen, Better to just dress in rags, Too funny.

Notes:
I found this to be interesting, because I used to do pharmacological research with opiate/opioidsI was not able to find what pabinal was by I am assuming it was an opiate like morphine or oxycodone: Early in April, a bare two weeks after his attempted suicide, Dazai had an attack of acute appendicitis that was complicated by his slowness in calling a doctor.
The operation was difficult and according to Dazai the doctors despaired of saving his life, He developed peritonitis and was in such agony that pabinal, a painkiller, was administered, Dazai came to depend on this narcotic after he left the hospital and steadily increased the dosage, He was an addict for about a year and a half, perhaps the darkest period of his entire life.
He was able in one way or another to obtain the drug, but the cost was considerable, and he soon ran up debts not only with pharmacists but with every friend and every publisher from whom he could borrow money.
He sold on by on all the manuscripts he had in the big manila envelope and forced himself to write more.
The stories of this period are harrowing to read, suggesting the desperation of a man writing in misery.
From Donald Keene, Dawn to the West, page, And from Wikipedia: After fighting the addiction for a year, in Octoberhe was taken to a mental institution, locked in a room and forced to quit cold turkey.

Biography on the author: sitelink wikipedia. org/wiki/OsamuD
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