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Dazai’s School Notebooks, including his doodles of his wife and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, are now available over at the Internet Archive:
https://yobanashicafe.com/2024/12/04/dazais-school-notebooks/
#YobanashiCafe #dazaiosamu #dazai #osamudazai #akutagawa #JapaneseLiterature
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Just saw a really wonderful review for Retrogression that lifted my spirits!
"...you can clearly feel the translator's dedication and willingness to portray Dazai in the right way..."
Full review: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCzd9xQIi2P
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Kuronbo by Dazai Osamu is now available to read over at Yobanashi Café:
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Butterflies by Dazai Osamu is now up and available to read for free on Yobanashi Café.
It is also included in our first publication, Retrogression, available now!
Check it out via: https://www.amazon.com/Retrogression-Osamu-Dazai/dp/B0D6Z5RL91 -
Retrogression is Amazon's #1 new release for Japanese literature! That's incredible, I didn't expect to top any bestseller lists or anything like that, I know Dazai isn't exactly obscure but I didn't think people were going to be THAT interested in reading his diaries! 🥹💛
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I have two bits of exciting news today, first of all: A cover reveal for Retrogression!
Secondly: I'm not dead! Or at least, according to Amazon, who wanted confirmation of the 'date of death' of the translator. Sorry to disappoint, however this does mean that I now have a pre-order link for the ebook version!
https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D58JT2HX
Please consider ordering if you can or sharing. Every ounce of support is appreciated. 🙏
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Human Lost by Dazai Osamu is now up and available to read for free on Yobanashi Café.
A candid account of his time in Musashino Hospital, it was the first time Dazai used the term 'no longer human' and includes words scribbled on the walls of his cell.
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#Dazai scrawled much of his original diary entries which later became 'Human Lost' on whatever he could find (including walls, medical reports, and a Bible). That same Bible was only found recently and put on display in a museum, and it has *more* poems in it than in Human Lost...
...Which I have translated and added in a footnote. Does this mean I can say I have included long lost, only recently rediscovered, never-before-seen material? 🤔
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I am very excited to have one of my Dazai translations featured on Asymptote's Translation Tuesday!
"A sensitive college flunker enacts sweet, obscure revenge in this excellent short story by Osamu Dazai... Major credit must go to Laurie Raye for rendering Dazai’s Japanese in a vivid, sparking English."
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/01/30/translation-tuesday-the-thief-by-osamu-dazai/
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"His talent is fully deserving of our patience because it is thoroughly worthy of our respect."
The latest from Yobanashi Café, a translation of Satō Haruo's defence of his rejection of Dazai for the first Akutagawa Prize, can be found here: https://yobanashicafe.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/a-respectable-yet-tormented-soul-regarding-dazai-osamu/
#YobanashiCafé #JapaneseLiterature #DazaiOsamu #Dazai #SatoHaruo
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"Just tell me what day to come and when, neither heavy snow nor pouring rain could keep me from your door."
Dazai's second letter to Satō Haruo begging for the Akutagawa Prize is now up on Yobanashi Café:
https://yobanashicafe.wordpress.com/2023/12/23/february-letter-to-sato-haruo-from-dazai-osamu/
#yobanashicafé #Dazai #DazaiOsamu #SatoHaruo #JapaneseLiterature
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New today: Dazai's letter to Satō Haruo begging for the Akutagawa Prize (and his life!), written on parchment measuring over four meters long.
https://yobanashicafe.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/january-letter-to-sato-haruo-from-dazai-osamu/
#YobanashiCafé #dazai #JapaneseLiterature #DazaiOsamu #SatoHaruo
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My translation of Dazai's infamous letter to Kawabata Yasunari, where he threatends to stab him, is now available on the (new!) Yobanashi Café website:
https://yobanashicafe.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/letter-to-kawabata-yasunari-from-dazai-osamu