Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu

by Alan Stephen Wolfe

Book Overview

Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context of Japanese literary history to provide a fresh view of major texts by this important literary figure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691636354
• ISBN13: 9780691636351
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"