Early Light (eBook)

Osamu Dazai (Autor)

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2022
64 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-3211-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer HumanEarly Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. "e;Everything's gone,"e; the father explains to his daughter: "e;Mr. Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, the Chino house, they all burned up,"e; "e;Yeah, they all burned up,"e; she said, still smiling."e;One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji,"e; another autobiographical tale, is much more comic: Dazai finds himself unable to escape the famous views, the beauty once immortalized by Hokusai and now reduced to a cliche. In the end, young girls torment him by pressing him into taking their photo before the famous peak: "e;Goodbye,"e; he hisses through his teeth, "e;Mount Fuji. Thanks for everything. Click."e;And the final story is "e;Villon's Wife,"e; a small masterpiece, which relates the awakening to power of a drunkard's wife. She transforms herself into a woman not to be defeated by anything, not by her husband being a thief, a megalomaniacal writer, and a wastrel. Single-handedly, she saves the day by concluding that "e;There's nothing wrong with being a monster, is there? As long as we can stay alive."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Storybook ND Series
• Reihe/Serie: Storybook ND Series
• Reihe/Serie: Storybook ND Series
• Übersetzer: Donald Keene, Ralph McCarthy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alcohol • alcoholism • Anomie • aoi bungaku • autobiographical • Drinking • Fatalism • Hiroshima • husband • Mount Fuji • no longer human • Post-War • Short Stories • Tokyo • wife • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-3211-5 / 0811232115
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-3211-1 / 9780811232111