{"product_id":"good-bye-9780811240499","title":"Good-Bye","description":"\u003cp\u003eEleven new short works by the Osamu Dazai, author of No Longer Human\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai's legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with \"Memories\" (which tells a tale of teenage love, based on the autobiographical events that inspired Dazai's famed \u003cem\u003eNo Longer Human\u003c\/em\u003e), and ending with \"Good-Bye\" (the chapters of a comic romance that the author left unfinished when he took his own life), the short works here show the range and breadth of an author best known for his meditations on squalor and despair. But there is laughter here too, as in \"Tengu,\" a tongue-in-cheek critique of august hucksters of haiku. And there is also suspense on display: \"A Bluff Illusion\" presents a literary murder story in which a harmless prank escalates into a deadly pose. \"A Warning on Worldly Pleasures\" retells Saikaku's famous story about the temptation of a holy ascetic, and \"A: Autumn\" unfolds a quiver of epigrams (seemingly) drawn at random from the author's notes. All are masterfully translated by Ralph McCarthy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the breadth of Dazai's delightfully multifaceted, if tragically foreshortened, career, \u003cem\u003eGood-Bye\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-have for any Dazai fan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780811240499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: New York, United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 21.6(H)x13(L)x1.5(W)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eThe author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.  Ralph McCarthy has lived in Japan for almost two decades. He is the translator of two collections of stories by Osamu Dazai, “Self Portraits” and “Blue Bamboo,” and of Ryu Murakami’s novel 69.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\"From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant.\" -- Yasunari Kawabata\u003cbr\u003e\"Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self-described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe.\" -- Patti Smith\u003cbr\u003e\"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide.\" -- Yukio Mishima\u003cbr\u003e\"Playful and funny; self-referential and self-mocking.\" -- The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\"azai leans into [the self-loathing] with a kind of exuberance.\" -- Polly Barton","brand":"Osamu Dazai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49241061130457,"sku":"9780811240499","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9780811240499.jpg?v=1789264481","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/good-bye-9780811240499","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}