"Memories" brings together seven stories in a unique literary biography in which Dazai acts as chronicler of his own life. Without any shame, this exceptional author bares his tormented soul and offers us valuable autobiographical fragments that help us understand the existential anguish that marked his entire life. Revered by legions of devoted fans, joined by new readers generation after generation, Dazai has become the most transgressive icon of nonconformity and the most authoritative voice of the desolate atmosphere of the early postwar years in Japan. His nihilistic attitude, his repugnance for established values, and his excesses made Dazai the "enfant terrible" of Japanese literature in the 1930s and 1940s.







