I remember reading that Mishima hated Dazai. He even said (if I remember correctly) that he didn't like Bradbury's writing because it reminded him if Dazai's style. I searched Google to find out why Mishima dislikes Dazai but it seems my choice of key words doesn't bring up any results.
Can anybody link me to an article or explain why Mishima didn't like Dazai?
what the heck is he commiting sudoku in that picture? how big's the blade i mean what the hell. cigarette isn't even lit either must have surprised himself (lol!) bye x
Osamu was a left-socialist and Mishima right-nationalist.
Acting like Dazai's assassin at a party sounds Wittgenstein-esque
Valid. Dazai felt guilty as the son of a rich family. His first suicide attempt was over that.
Dazai also threatened to stab Kawabata. What a time to be alive... modern authors are such boring losers. Not a single assassination attempt. I'd give anything to watch Mishima and Dazai get in a fistfight.
Kawabata seems like such a mild dude, why would Dazai threaten him?
holy shit it's asian nick cage
probably called him a pleb
Dazai was nominated for a literary prize 3 years in a row but never won. Kawabata was one of the judges. I wish there was an anime about it honestly.
There are actually several recordings that exist of Mishima talking about this very thing. Here is one I managed to dig up from Youtube. Specifically he starts talking about it at 4:00
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Basically he doesn't like Dazai because many of the weaknesses that Dazai very openly talks about, Mishima shares himself. Reading Dazai reveals to Mishima those aspects about himself he most hates.
Dazai: self-deprecating narcissist
Mishima: self-sacrificing megalomaniac
how to transform myself from a dazai to a mishima
Go to a military base and commit seppuku
Was that the Akutagawa Prize? I need to learn Japanese so I can read all of Dazai's stuff and some good biographies.
Yes, it was. Akutagawa was Dazai's idol so you can only imagine how it must have felt to have been denied it. The real kick is that no winner at all was declared for the second drawing.
>Basically he doesn't like Dazai because many of the weaknesses that Dazai very openly talks about, Mishima shares himself. Reading Dazai reveals to Mishima those aspects about himself he most hates.
Mishihomo btfo for all eternity.
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i found this "letter to kawabata from dazai". is this legit or fake?
Not that guy, but I found the same letter on this website (three posts down)
He's posted other translations of Dazai's letters
where does one start with osamu bin dazai
I started with No Longer Human but I kind of wish I'd started with The Setting Sun, because going from No Longer Human to The Setting Sun was not only reading them out of order chronologically but also felt like a step down because I enjoyed No Longer Human more.
do you mean in the order that he wrote them? or is one a sequel
They're not sequels, it's just the order in which he wrote them. I heard on Yea Forums that the Schoolgirl translation is bad , but I haven't read it. I also read Run, Melos! and enjoyed it, but it has a very different tone to The Setting Sun and No Longer Human (it's an earlier work) and it's only a short story.
I thought No longer Human was kind of bland. Maybe the translation sucked, I don't know, I feel like I missed something. Am I alone in thinking this?
>dazai.livejournal.com
>Is breeding exotic birds and going to see the dance, Mr Kawabata, really such an exemplary lifestyle? I’ll stab him! That is what I thought. The man’s an utter swine, I thought.
Reminder that Dazai is absolutely based. Tells pretentious twats to go fuck themselves and doesn't afraid of anything.
Don't we have a Yea Forums guide to Dazai yet?
Self Portraits -- his life in chronological order and tied into his writing, a more complete picture of the evolution of his character. Must be paired with NLH.
Pic rel -- A collection of other short stories, good overview of everything. Acceptable to read just this and then Ningen Shikkaku, optional Setting Sun
Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) -- Funny, clever rewrites of classic stories. Optional.
Setting Sun -- Romance/drama based on a diary borrowed from one of his lovers/friends
Ningen Shikkaku -- Entry Point and also conclusion point. For the complete Dazai experience, read NLH, then everything listed above, and NLH again (what I'm doing.) There might be a few other short stories of his not included in the above collections that you can also throw in. The Run, Melos collection has some additional ones (RM is good bromance.)
Schoolgirl is proto-Setting Sun. Most of his short stories are proto-NLH, namely everything in Self Portraits.
In my humble view.