5/15/2023 0 Comments Early light osamu dazai![]() ![]() He survived his first suicide attempt at age 20 and eventually entered Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University) to study French literature (without ever having studied French)! Uncomfortable with his privileged heritage, he also dabbled in forbidden leftist politics. However, he preferred the pleasures of the flesh to study. The tenth of eleven children of a wealthy landowning family involved in national politics, he was born in the northern remoteness of Tsugaru (present day Goshogawara City) in Aomori prefecture.ĭazai showed his first real talent for writing at about age 17 and was heavily influenced by the writers Kyoka Izumi and Ryunosuke Akutagawa. reached the peak of his success directly after WWIIīorn, Shūji Tsushima, Osamu Dazai was a brilliant and prolific, and suicidal, writer of early 20th century Japan whose brutally honest, pessimistic, first-person fiction writing, mainly about his life of unrestrained passion, made him one of Japan's most popular literary figures ever. ![]()
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