"Tsugaru" contains three masterpieces by Japanese literary giant Dazai Osamu: "Tsugaru", "Aomori" and "Sado". The main body of this book, the article "Tsugaru", is a custom written by Dazai Osamu for the Tsugaru area, his hometown, commissioned by Oyama Bookstore. It was first published in 1944. Dazai Osamu's works such as "The Disqualification of the World" and "Setting Sun" are always filled with a gloomy and decadent atmosphere. But "Tsugaru" is different. He returned to his hometown after many years, met his relatives and friends, and re-understood the customs, history and culture of his hometown, and conveyed a strong sense of nostalgia in his writing. Osamu Dazai's representative writing style is one of contradiction, decadence, struggle, despair, and loneliness. "Tsugaru" is Osamu Dazai's warm work, full of love for his hometown and attachment to the world. After reading "Tsugaru", you will have a complete understanding of Dazai Osamu, and you will also understand why Dazai Osamu gradually became decadent after leaving his hometown and the people in his hometown.
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Adhering to his usual cold, self-deprecating, helpless and casual style, Dazai Osamu wrote this guerrilla book after visiting his childhood hometown. When Dazai was a child, his impression of Tsugaru was that he was cool, clean, optimistic and happy. After growing up, Dazai, who was busy traveling around Tokyo, once again returned to his long-lost hometown. He got close to slightly unfamiliar acquaintances and various subtly changed scenery.
Reading Dazai, it seems that he is careless and slightly allegorical, but in fact, it is his re-searching for the distant meaning of life while carrying deep pain, melancholy and longing for something, knowing that he cannot get it but blindly expecting something.
If you read too many high-sounding words, this other type of style will feel that it arouses people's simple curiosity and pursuit of softness and beauty that are buried due to social experience.
"If you can avoid violent joy, tragedy will naturally not strike."
In "Tsugaru", I saw a gentle Dazai who has regained his romantic interest in life. This is also very valuable.
Osamu Dazai's "Tsugaru" allowed me to see a different side of him. This book is full of love and nostalgia for hometown, and the warmth revealed in the text is touching. Moreover, Dazai Osamu's analysis of himself in the book is also very profound, which made me understand his inner world better. Recommended to everyone, be sure to read it!
Adhering to his usual cold, self-deprecating, helpless and casual style, Dazai Osamu wrote this guerrilla book after visiting his childhood hometown. When Dazai was a child, his impression of Tsugaru was that he was cool, clean, optimistic and happy. After growing up, Dazai, who was busy traveling around Tokyo, once again returned to his long-lost hometown. He got close to slightly unfamiliar acquaintances and various subtly changed scenery. Reading Dazai, it seems that he is careless and slightly allegorical, but in fact, it is his re-searching for the distant meaning of life while carrying deep pain, melancholy and longing for something, knowing that he cannot get it but blindly expecting something. If you read too many high-sounding words, this other type of style will feel that it arouses people's simple curiosity and pursuit of softness and beauty that are buried due to social experience. "If you can avoid violent joy, tragedy will naturally not strike." In "Tsugaru", I saw a gentle Dazai who has regained his romantic interest in life. This is also very valuable.
Osamu Dazai's "Tsugaru" allowed me to see a different side of him. This book is full of love and nostalgia for hometown, and the warmth revealed in the text is touching. Moreover, Dazai Osamu's analysis of himself in the book is also very profound, which made me understand his inner world better. Recommended to everyone, be sure to read it!