What it was like to emerge as a mega-star in his mid-thirties and remain so for decades to come
and the mind-numbing despair when a relationship suddenly comes to an end
A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut
Meet Sturm the Solamnic knight
Fourteen nights in a town full of bullies with no curfews and no rules
Self-Portraits - Osamu Dazai Soort Spel_Family Game What it was like to"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death and the death of others. Faced with pressure to conform, he declared his individuality to the world in all its self involved, self conscious, and self hating