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The astonishing work of Osamu Dazai, the master of Japanese "rogue" literature, is presented in its simplified Chinese version without any abridgements.

A collection of short and medium-length stories by Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, which contains ten short and medium-length stories depicting the life of Osamu Dazai. It includes the famous work "Retrograde" by Dazai Osamu, which was shortlisted for the first Akutagawa Literature Prize. Includes a rare warm work in Dazai Osamu's writing career - "Romantic Lantern". This article changes from Dazai Osamu's previous depressing style and tells the story of the Irie brothers and sisters working together to create a new version of "Rape Rapunzel" vividly.

"Setting Sun" was written around June 1947, one year before Osamu Dazai's death. After the war, her mother, who was born into a noble family, fell into financial ruin and was forced to move to a small villa in Izu with her daughter, Kazuko, to make a living. His younger brother Naoji, who was drafted into the army shortly after, returned from Nanyang and lived a life of debauchery with the writer Uehara every day. At the same time, the mother's health deteriorated, and she finally passed away with her son and daughter by her side. After her mother died, Kazuko decided to revolutionize love without any worries and went to court Uehara, whom she admired. Early the next morning, his brother Naoharu committed suicide at home, leaving a suicide note describing his pain and past... "The Setting Sun" was written after Japan's defeat. The whole book is full of the pain of war and the pain of growing up. It is one of Japan's famous coming-of-age novels and is deeply loved by young readers.

Osamu Dazai's entire confession in the last 500 days of his life, including the goodbyes he never finished saying; an analysis of the nihility and despair of the post-war era, facing the abyss of human nature and the desire for survival; a book of the soul about degradation, struggle and redemption, seeing fragility, loneliness and the eternal longing for love and recognition. This book is a collection of works by the Japanese literary giant Dazai Osamu. It contains a total of 18 works. It is the last two years of Osamu Dazai's life that concentrated his brilliance. These include many representative works such as "The Unworthy of the World" and "Setting Sun", as well as the posthumous work "Goodbye". Together, these articles describe the decadent atmosphere of postwar Japanese society and the plight of individual spirits. Osamu Dazai used his trademark self-deprecating and desperate style to create a series of images of "marginal people" who were sunk in alcohol, drugs and emotions. They either struggle to survive in the decline of aristocratic families, or explore the meaning of existence in self-exile, or they wander painfully between family and morality. The lines are full of doubts about traditional morality, confusion about being a human being, and a deep desire for love and understanding. This collection of works is not only the core microcosm of Osamu Dazai's literary world, but also a mirror that reflects the loneliness and emptiness common to mankind. With its ultimate truth and beauty, it faces the complexity and fragility of life.

This book includes Osamu Dazai's most representative novels "Disqualification in the World" and "Setting Sun" as well as literary essays "This I Hear". "Disqualified in the World" is Osamu Dazai's last completed work, and it is the pyramid of Japanese "private novels". In the form of a confession, it explores the cowardice deep in the heart and explores the qualifications of a human being. It goes straight to the soul and is inescapable. "Setting Sun" writes about the pain and redemption of Japan's declining aristocracy after the war. "Setting Sun Clan" has become synonymous with declining people, and Osamu Dazai's memorial hall was also named "Setting Sun Hall". "This I Hear" is Osamu Dazai's response to the criticism of him by other writers in the literary world. It includes criticism of some "old writers" in the literary world at that time, as well as a defense for himself. It also states his views and attitude towards writing. It can also be regarded as Osamu Dazai's "Declaration of Independence", which shocked the literary world when it was published.

"Disqualification in the World" is an autobiographical novel. The preface and appendix are narrated in the author's voice, and the three notebooks are narrated in the voice of the protagonist Ye Zang. The protagonist Ye Zang is cowardly and timid, afraid to face all the emotions in the world, and does not understand the complex inner world of human beings. He hides his true self by making others happy, uses drinking to have fun to escape the world, and ultimately leads to destruction. This kind of confusion runs through the youth of the author and everyone; he is tortured by pain and confusion, and he spends his life seeking love and avoiding love due to self-weariness. To be disqualified in the human world means to have lost the qualifications to be a human being. Through the experience of the novel's protagonist Ye Zang, Dazai Osamu expressed the real pain in his life. This work is considered an autobiographical novel. In the same year of its publication, Osamu Dazai drowned and died. "The Clown's Flower" is also known as "The Flower of Taoism". In 1930, when Osamu Dazai was 21 years old, he met a young married woman in Ginza, Tokyo, and the two committed suicide by drowning in Kamakura. Later, Dazai Osamu was rescued, but the other party died unfortunately. Osamu Dazai was charged with "assisted suicide" but was not prosecuted. This incident became an unforgettable crime for Dazai Osamu, and he created the novel "Clown Flower" based on this experience. "Clown's Flower" is considered to be the prelude and starting point of creation of "The Lost World", and its protagonist is the same person as Oba Yezo in "The Lost World". "The God of Kyogen" In 1935, at the age of 26, Osamu Dazai attempted to hang himself on Mount Kamakura after failing to apply for a job at the Tokyo Metropolitan News Agency. "The God of Kyogen" tells the story of the protagonist, Kazuo Kazuo, who committed suicide after failing to apply for a newspaper job. Dazai Osamu admitted in the article that all of this was his own personal experience. "Imaginary Spring", "Clown's Flower", "The God of Madness" and "Imaginary Spring" all belong to the "Imaginary Wandering" trilogy. "Imaginary Spring" tells the story of Osamu Dazai's downfall, depression and spiritual self-criticism in his life through the perspective of others in the form of letters. The book not only talks about Dazai Osamu's past relationships again, but also explains his literary ideals. "Flagbearer of the Twentieth Century" In 1936, Osamu Dazai experienced numerous embarrassments including appendicitis complicated by peritonitis, drug poisoning, and failure to win the Akutagawa Prize. In a desperate situation, Osamu Dazai wrote the sentence "I'm sorry for being born human" under the title of this work. The novel tells the story of Dazai Osamu who tried his best to fight against life, but encountered various misfortunes in turn. Osamu Dazai said: "I wrote "The Standard Bearer of the Twentieth Century" in extreme despair; but I still firmly believe that on the other side of despair, there must be hope." "Cherry" June 13, 1948, heavy rain poured down. Dazai Osamu and female reader Yamazaki Furei committed suicide by throwing themselves into the Tamagawa River. Six days later, their bodies were found under the bridge, on his birthday. Since then, June 19th every year has been regarded as the anniversary of Dazai Osamu's death. On this day, fresh cherries are placed in front of Dazai Osamu's tomb to hold a "cherry memorial ceremony". The name Sakura Ji comes from the novel "Cherry" published one year before his suicide, which tells the helpless life between Dazai Osamu and his wife and children. This work is considered to be Osamu Dazai's last literary legacy.

"Classic Style" contains Osamu Dazai's daily essays, short stories, and essays. The themes are rich and the forms are diverse, showing Dazai Osamu's various explorations in the field of literature, and incorporating Dazai Osamu's own perceptions of life. The publication of these works broke the public's stereotype of Dazai Osamu as "melancholy and degenerate", and gradually recognized his rich emotions as an ordinary person. Want to know the real Osamu Dazai? Then you must not miss this "Classic Style".

This book is based on "The Complete Works of Osamu Dazai" published by Japan's Chikuma Shobo in 1985, and includes 13 novels and essays by Osamu Dazai, including "Golden Landscape", "Women's Talk", "Eighty-Eight Nights", "Pretty Girl", "Yezakura and the Magic Flute". "Golden Scenery" depicts Dazai Osamu's respect for female beauty through the maid Qing's consistent consideration and comfort for the dandy young master. "The Song of Lazy" deeply reflects on the evil of laziness and writes the inspiring saying "If you don't work, you have no rights, and you will naturally lose your qualifications as a human being."

This set includes "Disqualification in the World", "Girl Disciple" and "Setting Sun". "Disqualification in the World": Disqualification in the world, that is, the loss of the qualifications to be a human being. The book consists of the author's preface, postscript, and three letters of the protagonist Oba Yezang. It describes the protagonist's continuous sinking from adolescence to middle age in order to escape reality. He experiences self-exile, alcoholism, suicide, and numbing himself with drugs, and finally moves towards the tragedy of self-destruction step by step. In the process of self-denial, she expresses her inner anguish and desire to be loved... "Girl Disciple": The heroine is sometimes happy and sometimes laments. She fantasizes that she has a pair of beautiful eyes and hopes to die as a beautiful girl before the age of 18. She cannot see the goal of life and believes that happiness will never come tomorrow. This is just a female student's random thoughts in one day. It has no profound meaning and no rigorous logic, but it is extremely true. In addition to the collection of Dazai Osamu's short story collection "Girl's Disciple", this book also selects 7 masterpieces including the short story masterpieces "Achan", "Beautiful Girl", "Goddess", "Ritsuko and Sadako", "Mother", "The Illusion on the Cliff", and "Women's Talk", which basically covers the complete picture of Dazai Osamu's "femininity" novels. "Setting Sun": a stage of decline, a past culture, a long-lost elegy of the passing years! It is enough to arouse deep trembling and nostalgia-like feelings in the readers' hearts, and even allow them to peer into the abyss of human nature! "Setting Sun" can be called the Japanese version of "The Cherry Orchard". It uses notes, letters and other forms to describe the desolate scene of a declining aristocratic family. The work shows the declining social status of the descendants of the nobles after the war and the dilemma of losing their glory. It can also be said to be Dazai's elegy to the declining nobles.

"Disqualification in the World" (also known as "Disqualification as a Human Being") was published in 1948. It is an autobiographical novel. The delicate autobiography reveals the ultimate decadence and is a destructive masterpiece. Dazai Osamu skillfully hides his life and thoughts in the life experience of the protagonist Ye Zang. Through Ye Zang's monologue, we can peek into Dazai Osamu's inner world, a "life full of shame." In the same year that this work was published, Osamu Dazai committed suicide.

"Novel Lantern" includes fourteen short and medium-length works by Japanese literary giant Dazai Osamu, including "Novel Lantern", "Owl Communication", "About Clothing", "Shameless" and "Writer's Notes". The articles included in the book "Novel Lantern" were written between 1940 and 1944, when Dazai Osamu had just entered into the only formal marriage in his life. The happiness of marriage pulled him out of the shadow of failed love and brought him warmth and light. After being redeemed, Dazai Osamu cheered up and worked hard on writing, hoping to bid farewell to decadence and pursue beauty, so he came up with this "Novel Lantern". In this book, Osamu Dazai writes about family, love, jokes, and friends.

Dazai uses his own experience of a suicide attempt on the Kamakura Koshiko Dosaki Coast as the material to reproduce the various world phenomena of the protagonist Oba Haizou among selfish adults after his failure to die for love in multiple dimensions. The writer uses experimental techniques to observe the pettiness and ugliness of human nature, weaving his own extensive sensibility and subjective hesitation and uneasiness. How can we save ourselves on this giant ship of life? Through naked writing, writers provide the possibility of a new life for people who are tired of complex interpersonal relationships.

The semi-autobiographical final work of Japanese literary master Dazai Osamu. Collection of all Dazai Osamu's later aesthetic works. War trauma, the masterpiece of nihilistic aesthetics "Twilight" was translated for the first time and won the Noma Literary Translation Award. Lu Qiushi dedicated his heart to the translation.

This book is based on "The Complete Works of Osamu Dazai" published by Japan's Chikuma Shobo in 1985, and includes 9 short stories and essays by Osamu Dazai, including "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji", "Girl Apprentice", "Flag Bearer of the 20th Century", "Grandma's House" and "Lantern". "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji" is uniquely written and is used in most Japanese high school Chinese textbooks. It centers on Mount Fuji and depicts the scenery of Fuji from multiple angles. Each scenery entrusts Osamu Dazai's emotions. The subtitle of "The Standard Bearer of the Twentieth Century" "I'm sorry for being a human being" has become Osamu Dazai's most famous quote.

This book contains two important works of Osamu Dazai in his later period of creation - "Disqualification in the World" and "The Setting Sun". In these two works, Osamu Dazai focuses on expressing the love, trust and freedom of the inner world between human beings, and analyzes the true side of people hidden under their morality, which is thought-provoking. "Disqualified" is Osamu Dazai's most outstanding work, and it is also a soul-salvation work that has influenced tens of thousands of young people. In this work, Osamu Dazai describes the life of Oba Yozo, a very tragic "marginal man" in history. From adolescence to middle age, he became increasingly decadent in order to escape from real life, completely isolating himself from the world, and finally embarked on the road of self-destruction. "Setting Sun" uses a female monologue writing technique to tell the story of the protagonist Kazuko's efforts to break down the barriers of identity and finally usher in a new life when the aristocratic class is declining.

"Disqualification in the World", also known as "Disqualification as a Human Being", was published in 1948. It is an autobiographical novel. The delicate autobiography reveals the ultimate decadence and is a destructive masterpiece. This book contains various experiences in his short life and his inner confusion and struggle. Even though time has changed, the deepest despair still comes from the inner confusion, and this confusion and hesitation almost ran through the youth of Dazai Osamu and each of us. Therefore, this book is a cruel and eternal youth literature. However, after the confused soul was broken, some people chose to continue life in the hustle and bustle, and Osamu Dazai left poetically. From his works, you can understand the hesitation and despair of the past, and see the weak and eager self in our hearts.

People call Dazai Osamu's works eternal youth literature: in his works, there are always eternal youths who never grow up, either perfect or completely shattered. This is a concentrated expression of the purity and fragility of Dazai Osamu's life, and it is also a true portrayal of modern youth. This book is a selection of Osamu Dazai's short stories and short stories. It has selected more than ten of Osamu Dazai's masterpieces such as "The Setting Sun" and "Disqualification in the World" and compiled them into a volume. It is a concentrated expression of the essence of Osamu Dazai's creation. The representative work "Disqualification in the World" describes the tragic story of the protagonist who cannot find the direction of life, keeps sinking in order to escape reality, and finally leads to self-destruction. It is considered to be a semi-autobiographical novel. The novel profoundly reflects the emptiness and helplessness of people under the oppression of the capitalist system. "Setting Sun" describes the chaotic era when Japanese social values ​​collapsed after the war, and the tragic life of declining nobles who had no choice but to die, and shows the deep harm caused by the war to the Japanese people. The remaining ten short stories also have their own characteristics, fully demonstrating the author's creative talent.

"Weiyong's Wife" is a collection of short stories by Osamu Dazai, and the book of the same name is Dazai's masterpiece. "Wei Yong's Wife" is a metaphor for "the wife of a wanton man". A woman kept the family together and worked as a maid to pay off her husband's debts when her husband became an alcoholic, owed money, eloped with a woman, and finally committed suicide by diving into the water. In 2009, at the 33rd World Film Festival held in Montreal, Canada, the film "Villon's Wife" directed by Negishi Yoshitaro and starring Matsu Takako and Asano Tadanobu won the Best Director Award.

"Disqualified" is a cruel and eternal youth literature. He can never get rid of loneliness and sadness, but he always longs to love and be loved, but everything always goes against his wishes. However, after the confused soul was broken, some people chose to continue life in the hustle and bustle, and Osamu Dazai left poetically. From his works, you can understand the hesitation and despair of the past, and see the weak and eager self in our hearts. May these painful struggles be your medicine to love everything in this world.