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Dazai Osamu

Geburtstag: 19. Juni 1909
Todesdatum: 13. Juni 1948
Andere Namen:אוסאמו דאזאי,اوسامو دازای,Дадзай Осаму

Dazai Osamu war ein japanischer Schriftsteller.

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„Ich habe ein schändliches Leben geführt. Was menschlich leben heißt, weiß ich nicht.“

— Dazai Osamu
in: Gezeichnet. Übersetzt von Jürgen Stalph. Frankfurt, Insel Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-4581-6871-0, S.11 (人間失格, Ningen shikkaku)

Über Leben

„Ah, die Menschen, sie halten sich, obwohl sie sich nicht verstehen, obwohl sie ein völlig falsches Bild voneinander haben, ihr Leben lang für Busenfreunde und rezitieren, ohne je etwas bemerkt zu haben, einander noch am Grabe tränenreiche Abschiedsworte.“

— Dazai Osamu
No Longer Human

Über Leben, über menschen

„I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.“

— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

„After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.“

— Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

„This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.“

— Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

„Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant. It is a struggle between one individual to another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immediately triumph is everything“

— Osamu Dazai
Context: Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant. It is a struggle between one individual to another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the immediately triumph is everything. ‘Human beings never submit to human beings.’ Even slaves practice their mean retaliations. Human beings cannot conceive of any mean retaliations. Human beings cannot conceive of any means of survival except of a single then-and-there contest. They speak of duty to one’s country and such like things, but the object of their effort is invariably the individual, and, even once the individual’s needs have been met, again the individual comes in. The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This is how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror of the illusion of the ocean called the world. I learned to behave rather aggressively, without the endless anxious worrying I knew before, responding as it were to the needs of the moment. Third Notebook: Part One