Good-bye : an Osamu Dazai miscellany / Osamu Dazai ; translated by Ralph McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948, Author.

Contributor:

McCarthy, Ralph F., translator.

Standardized Title:

Guddobai. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/ca69ecf3-d9f8-1204-ae6c-3424ac6fc17f

Language:

English

Japanese

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories

Short stories.

Physical Description:

211 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2026]

Summary:

"Here to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai's legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English. Beginning with "Memories" (which tells a tale of teenage love, based on the autobiographical events that inspired Dazai's famed No Longer Human), and ending with "Good-Bye" (the chapters of a comic romance that the author left unfinished when he took his own life), the short works here show the range and breadth of an author best known for his meditations on squalor and despair. But there is laughter here too, as in "Tengu," a tongue-in-cheek critique of august hucksters of haiku. And there is also suspense on display: "A Bluff Illusion" presents a literary murder story in which a harmless prank escalates into a deadly pose. "A Warning on Worldly Pleasures" retells Saikaku's famous story about the temptation of a holy ascetic, and "A: Autumn" unfolds a quiver of epigrams (seemingly) drawn at random from the author's notes. All are masterfully translated by Ralph McCarthy. Spanning the breadth of Dazai's delightfully multifaceted, if tragically foreshortened, career, Good-Bye is a must-have for any Dazai fan"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780811240499

0811240495

OCLC:

1582438302

Publisher Number:

90104931884