<b>Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) is one of the key figures in 20th-century Japanese literature.</b> <b>This collection includes works previously not published in Russian, translated by Tatyana Sokolova-Delusina and Dmitry Ragozin.</b> Dazai’s creative legacy is not limited to “The Disqualified Human” and “Sunset Sun”: it includes more than one hundred and forty stories, where his mastery and artistic boldness are clearly displayed. Tragicomedy, subtle irony, and attentive insight into human psychology combine with his elegant experiments with form and style.
The book includes texts first published in Russian—“Notes of an Autumn Wind,” “Seagull,” “Tales from Various Provinces in a New Interpretation,” “The Pandora Box,” and others; all of them are presented in translations by well-known Japanologists Tatyana Sokolova-Delusina and Dmitry Ragozin.