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Crackling Mountain and other stories

Crackling Mountain and other stories

Osamu Dazai, 太宰 治 · 1989 · 255 pages

Social life and customsTranslations into EnglishJapan in fictionFictionManners and customsFiction, short stories (single author)

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Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted writers. Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent. The eleven stories in this collection of Japanese literature present the most fully rounded portrait available of a tragic, multifaceted genius of modern Japanese letters.

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