Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu by Alan Stephen Wolfe

Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu

Alan Stephen Wolfe

264 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reflective medium-paced
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Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws o...

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