Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu by Osamu Dazai

Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu

Osamu Dazai with Ralph F. McCarthy (Translator)

142 pages first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction short stories mysterious slow-paced
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Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands ...

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