5/11/2023 0 Comments Early light osamu dazai![]() The Flowers of Buffoonery was originally published in 1935. The Flowers of Buffoonery, Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett (trans) (New Directions, March 2023) No Longer Human is a highly stylized example. ![]() The pre-war Japanese literary establishment celebrated the so-called I-novel genre-an autobiographical laying bare of the author’s most shameful secrets. Oba is by far best known as the protagonist of No Longer Human. ![]() The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated by Sam Bett, stars Dazai’s most famous character, the semi-autobiographical Yozo Oba. ![]() The Flowers of Buffoonery is the latest addition to his oeuvre in English. The short-story collection Early Light debuted in the fall of 2022. No Longer Human was released in a new translation by Mark Gibeau as a Shameful Life in 2018. Dazai’s A New Hamlet was translated by Owen Cooney in 2016. These include Osamu Dazai, long celebrated for his No Longer Human, first translated into English by Donald Keene in the 1950s. While many of these novels and short stories collections are by rising authors, publishers also present readers with classic works by authors already well-known outside of Japan. ![]() The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in titles translated from Japanese into English. ![]()
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