Books Nov 10, 2018
A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist
by Damian Flanagan
Dazai is the ultimate bad boy of Japanese literature and "Ningen Shikkaku," recently re-translated by Mark Gibeau as "A Shameful Life," is his supreme masterpiece, a novel that still shocks today with its brutal honesty and unflinching, strangely thrilling pessimism.