Guardian Australia · Fiction in translation

From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star

· By John Self
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More than seven decades after they were first released, the dark novels of Osamu Dazai have become a publishing sensation, as a new generation of readers engage with his bleakness, humour and brilliance

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