A Shameful Life

This new translation of Ningen shikkaku, the most enduring work of a giant of postwar Japanese literature, offers a revelatory portrait of a young man's struggle to survive in a world he cannot comprehend. His doomed love affairs, feverish musings on humanity, and constant fear of exposing his true being haunt the pages of his "journal" and portray a slow descent into self-destruction, approximating the life of the author himself.

Author: Osamu Dazai

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press

Released Date: 2018

ISBN: 9781611720440