Crackling Mountain&Other St. - Softcover

Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century Japan's most gifted writers and a master teller of tales. 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 present the most fully rounded portrait available of a tragic, multifaceted genius of modern Japanese letters.

This collection of previously unpublished work has been carefully chosen to present the most fully rounded portrait of Osamu Dazai, the tragic genius of twentieth century Japanese literature. By turns hilarious, introspective, ironic and mystical, these remarkable tales reveal the full range of Dazai's talents, now lost to the world thanks to his dissolute life and eventual suicide.