"Tells the poignant and fascinating semi-autobiographical story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin …
The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingl…
"Tells the poignant and fascinating semi-autobiographical story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin i…
"Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese la…
"Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of Max Blecher--a magnificent writer who brings to mind Bruno Schulz--paints in vivid colors the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth, eerie mirages wherein he would glimpse future events, glowing glimpses unsettling in every w…
"Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of Max Blecher--a magnificent writer who brings to mind Bruno Schulz--paints in vivid colors the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth, eerie mirages wherein he would glimpse future events, glowing glimpses unsettling in every w…
"Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of Max Blecher--a magnificent writer who brings to mind Bruno Schulz--paints in vivid colors the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth, eerie mirages wherein he would glimpse future events, glowing glimpses unsettling in every w…
"The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transfor…
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transform…
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transform…
