Osamu Dazai

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Setting Sun

    "Dazai's best novel […] focusing on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior" -- The New York TimesA completely new translation of one of Osamu Dazai's best-loved novels, by award-winning translator, Juliet Win...

  • No Longer Human

    "Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras." -- Andrew Martin, The New York Times"A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad b...

  • Selfportraits

    Twenty autobiographical stories describe with honesty and self-deprecating humour the women, the suicide attempts, the drinking and the struggle against a staid literary establishment of Japan's "enfant terrible"....

  • Ningen Shikkaku

  • Schoolgirl

    The novella that first propelled Dazai into the literary elite of post-war Japan. Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of...

  • Shayou

  • Goodbye Dazai Osamu

  • Pandora's Box Dazai Osamu

    The war is over. Japan is defeated. Together with his country, a young man must rebuild his life. He will begin at a sanatorium, where everyone gets a nickname, surrounded by an interesting ensemble of patients and caregivers....

  • Pandora's Box

    The war is over. Japan is defeated. As his country rebuilds, a young man must fight disease and rebuild his life. He will start at a peculiar sanatorium, where everyone gets a nickname, and where he is surrounded by an odd assortment of patients and ...



  • A New Hamlet

    The Tragedy of Hamlet is the consummate tale of an introspective melancholic struggling to come to terms with the world he lives in; it is no surprise, then, that artists like Goethe and Coleridge have identified with this tortured character over the...

  • The Story of a Pet Dog

  • A Shameful Life:

    Recipient of the 2018 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese TranslationA new, definitive translation of the postwar classic known to the west as No Longer Human -- a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo S...

  • Otogizoshi

  • Blue Bamboo

  • Home to Tsugaru

    Place: Tsugaru in Aomori Prefecture, Japan Time: Spring 1944As World War II was coming to an end, Osamu Dazai (born Shuji Tsushima) returned to his home in the northern tip of Honshu, Japan on assignment from a publisher to travel and write about the...

  • Early Light

    Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer HumanEarly Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrib...

  • Flowers of Buffoonery

    For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer HumanThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba -- the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age -- is being kept a...

  • The Girl Who Became a Fish: Maiden's Bookshelf

    What dark fate awaits beneath the roaring falls? Suwa and her father live alone on the slopes of Horsebare Mountain, eking out the most meager of existences. During the warmer months the beautiful waterfall brings a few sightseers, but when winter co...

  • Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human: The Manga Edition

    "I've led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me."This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai's masterpiece NO LONGER HUMAN -- the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan -- tells the story of Yozo Oba, a young man growing u...



  • Self-Portraits: Stories

    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...

  • Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun: The Manga Edition

    A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in English & manga for the first time!This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai's classic novel, often considered his masterpiece.Set in the aftermath of World War...

  • The Beggar Student

    For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer.A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him...

  • No One Knows

    Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in EnglishNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, bu...

  • Retrograde

    Three stories of the ruined and the lost: Osamu Dazai at his most tormented. This collection unearths the Japanese literary legend’s most controversial and exhilarating early-career writing with first-time and original translations. “...

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Osamu Dazai has published 24 books.

The next book by Osamu Dazai, Retrograde, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun, was published in January 1968.

No. Osamu Dazai does not write books in series.
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