Self-Portraits: Stories - Osamu Dazai Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Essays
Japan
Japanese Literature
Short Story Collection
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Read by Brian Nishii
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, SELF-PORTRAITS shows the legendary writer at his best and worst.
“Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said Japan’s quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation’s obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death and the death of others. Faced with pressure to conform, he declared his individuality to the world in all its self-involved, self-conscious, and self-hating glory. “Art,” he wrote, “is ‘I.’”
In these short stories, collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy, we can see just how closely Dazai’s life mirrored his art, and vice versa, as the writer/narrator falls from grace, rises to fame, and falls again. Addiction, debt, shame, and despair dogged Dazai until his self-inflicted death, and yet despite all the lies and deception he resorted to in life, there is an almost fanatical honesty to his writing. And that has made him a hero to generations of listeners who see laid bare, in his works, the painful, impossible contradictions inherent in the universal commandment of social life—fit in and do as you are told—as well as the possibility, however desperate, of defiance.
Long out of print, these stories will be a revelation to the legions of new fans of NO LONGER HUMAN, THE SETTING SUN, and THE FLOWERS OF BUFFOONERY.
Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
Release date: 03-18-24
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 5/5
April 11th, 2024
You have a great collection of audiobooks!! Thank you for all your work!
April 12th, 2024
I LOve Dazai, Thank you @notsure900
April 12th, 2024
I Read his novel “Embers” translated to my mother language A few years ago and i loved it. also Casanova in Bolzano is so funny & Hilarious . Thank you.
April 12th, 2024
thank you!!!
April 19th, 2024
I always appreciate seeing more Dazai. Would love a more robust collection of Kawabata, Mishima, Oe, and Abe as well, but Dazai is my favorite among those.
May 6th, 2024
Nishii is my favorite narrator these days it used to be tjhe guy who did the knausgaard. I also loved the guy who read that horrid history of the congo. Years ago I loved Frederick Davidson who did all the great Russian novels and had A few other names
August 25th, 2024
Thank you.
March 22nd, 2025
Thank you! Please seed <3
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