"The Place Where Readers of Dazai Get Lost" Takashi Saito Price: ¥940 #TakashiSaito #Takashi_Saito #Books #JapaneseLiterature/Essays When you read Dazai, don't you feel as though you've wandered into something? If you enter the world of stories woven with endless depravity, the troublesome existence of self-awareness and pride, the gap between oneself and the world, and the brilliance of the Japanese language's rhythm, you probably won't be able to pass through without feeling anything. From all of Osamu Dazai's works, unforgettable phrases such as "It's alright to be a non-person. We just need to be alive." (from "Villon's Wife"), "I am sorry for being born" (epigraph of "The Flagbearer of the Twentieth Century"), and "At the end of August, I saw something beautiful" (from "Mangan") are extracted and their appeal is explained. The book also covers humorous works like "The Tenacity of Poverty" from "Shinshaku Shokoku Banashi" and strange, incomprehensible works as well.