Retrograde - Osamu Dazai

Three stories of the ruined and the lost: Osamu Dazai at his most tormented. This collection unearths the Japanese literary legend''s most controversial and exhilarating early-career writing with first-time and original translations. ''Retrograde'' traces the life of an anguished youth in reverse; ''Das Gemeine'' features an aspiring literato with a dark past who hitches his wagon to an eccentric violinist; ''Blossom-Leaves and the Spirit Whistle'' tells of an old woman recalling the final breaths of her beautiful, sickly sister. Experience the twisted agony of the prose that propelled Dazai t
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