[DeepL Translation - needs review] A short story by Osamu Dazai, a novelist of the early Showa period and representative of the "Muyori-ha" or "New Caricature School" of doomed writers. First published in Fujingaho [1940], it tells the story of "I," who spent the summer eight years ago at the home of a friend two years younger than himself named Sakichi Takabe in Mishima and wrote a novel titled "Romanesque," only to be disappointed eight years later when he revisited Mishima and found it wi...
