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Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human , are considered modern-day classics in Japan. With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai’s stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, and postwar Japan.

One such literary work, No Longer Human, has received quite a few adaptations: a film directed by Genjiro Arato, the first four episodes of the anime series Aoi Bungaku, and a manga serialized in Shinchosha's Comic Bunch magazine. While Dazai continues to be widely celebrated in Japan, he remains relatively unknown elsewhere with only a handful of his novels available in English.

✵ 19. jún 1909 – 13. jún 1948 • Ďalšie mená Дадзай Осаму, اوسامو دازای, אוסאמו דאזאי

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Osamu Dazai: 39 citátov230 Páči sa

Osamu Dazai: Citáty v angličtine

“This year I am twenty-seven. My hair has become much greyer. Most people would take me for over forty.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Final Setence
No Longer Human

“Though I have always made it my practice to be pleasant to everybody, I have not once actually experienced friendship. I have only the most painful recollections of my various acquaintances with the exception of such companions in pleasure as Horiki. I have frantically played the clown in order to disentangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result. Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy. I know that I am liked by other people, but I seem to be deficient in the faculty to love others. (I should add that I have very strong doubts as to whether even human beings really possess this faculty.) It was hardly to be expected that someone like myself could ever develop any close friends—besides, I lacked even the ability to pay visits. The front door of another person’s house terrified me more than the gate of Inferno in the Divine Comedy, and I am not exaggerating when I say that I really felt I could detect within the door the presence of a horrible dragon-like monster writhing there with a dank, raw smell.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part One
No Longer Human

“God killed me, and only after He made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha The Setting Sun

Zdroj: The Setting Sun

“The weak fear happiness itself.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

Zdroj: No Longer Human

“Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha The Setting Sun

Zdroj: The Setting Sun

“Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

No Longer Human

“But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.”

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Zdroj: Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

“Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha The Setting Sun

Zdroj: The Setting Sun

“There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes. And the more nervous they are-the quicker to take fright-the more violent they pray that every storm will be … Painters who have had this mentality, after repeated wounds and intimidations at the hands of the apparitions called human beings, have often come to believe in phantasms-they plainly saw monsters in broad daylight, in the midst of nature. And they did not fob people off with clowning; they did their best to depict these monsters just as they had appeared. Takeichi was right: they had dared to paint pictures of devils.”

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Osamu Dazai kniha No Longer Human

The Second Notebook
No Longer Human