EAN: 9780811231985

EARLY LIGHT - OSAMU DAZAI GEBUNDEN

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story
relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo
at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home  he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and
their little girl to relatives in Kofu  only to be bombed out anew. Everything's gone  the
father explains to his daughter: Mr. Rabbit  our shoes  the Ogigari house  the Chino house 
they all burned up  Yeah  they all burned up  she said  still smiling. One Hundred Views of
Mount Fuji  another autobiographical tale  is much more comic: Dazai finds himself unable to
escape the famous views  the beauty once immortalized by Hokusai and now reduced to a cliche.
In the end  young girls torment him by pressing him into taking their photo before the famous
peak: Goodbye  he hisses through his teeth  Mount Fuji. Thanks for everything. Click. And the
final story is Villon's Wife  a small masterpiece  which relates the awakening to power of a
drunkard's wife. She transforms herself into a woman not to be defeated by anything  not by her
husband being a thief  a megalomaniacal writer  and a wastrel. Single-handedly  she saves the
day by concluding that There's nothing wrong with being a monster  is there? As long as we can
stay alive.

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