[DeepL Translation - needs review] Essays by Osamu Dazai, a novelist of the early Showa period who represented the "Muyori-ha" and "Shin-gisaku-ha" school of doomed writers. It was first published in "Nihon roman-ha" [1935]. It consists of 55 short essays and aphorisms written with the motive "because I wanted to stay alive." The essays vary in content, but if one were to say anything, they range from his views on literature to his views on life, his own commentary on his own works, and even...
