The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting
Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the
social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by
drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator whose credits
include Star by Yukio Mishima. Working with David Boyd, he
co-translated the Mieko Kawakami novels Heaven, shortlisted for the
International Booker Prize; All the Lovers in the Night, a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; and Breasts
and Eggs.
"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those
things in myself that I most want to hide."
*Yukio Mishima*
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