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Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best—and his worst

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"Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self-described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe." -- Patti Smith
"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." -- Yukio Mishima

SelfPortraits

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    A Paperback / softback by Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy

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      Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Publication Date: 06/02/2024
      ISBN13: 9780811232265, 978-0811232265
      ISBN10: 0811232263
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best—and his worst

      Trade Review
      "Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self-described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe." -- Patti Smith
      "What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." -- Yukio Mishima

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