A Shameful Life

Ningen Shikkaku

Osamu Dazai, Mark Gibeau

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Stone Bridge Press
20 November 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Osamu Dazai is one of the most famous-and infamous-writers of 20th-century Japan. A Shameful Life (Ningen shikkaku) is his final published work and has become a bestselling classic for its depiction of the tortured struggle of a young man to survive in a world that he cannot comprehend. Paralleling the life and death of Dazai himself, the delicate weaving of fact and fiction remorselessly documents via journals the life of Yozo, a university student who spends his time in increasing isolation and debauchery. His doomed love affairs, suicide attempts, and constant fear of revealing his true self haunt the pages of the book and reveal a slow descent into madness. This dark tale nevertheless conveys something authentic about the human heart and its inability to find its true bearing.

By: Osamu Dazai
Translated by: Mark Gibeau
Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781611720440
ISBN 10: 1611720443
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 20 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Osamu Dazai, Dazai and his lover drowned themselves in the Tamagawa Canal in western Tokyo. Mark Gibeau is a literary translator and scholar of postwar Japanese literature. His previous translations include fiction by Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichir Tanizaki, Shgor Yamamoto, Sakumi Tayama, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Saky Komatsu among others. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, Canberra.

Reviews for A Shameful Life: (Ningen Shikkaku)

Winner of the William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation Dazai's reputation has not waned a bit in seventy years. Reading Mark Gibeau's brilliant translation will show you why. --Roger Pulvers, award-winning translator, film director, and author of LIV