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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