EAN: 9780811231985

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Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu only to be bombed out anew. "Everything's gone " the father explains to his daughter: "Mr. Rabbit our shoes the Ogigari house the Chino house they all burned up " "Yeah they all burned up " she said still smiling. "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji " another autobiographical tale is much more comic: Dazai finds himself unable to escape the famous views the beauty once immortalized by Hokusai and now reduced to a cliche. In the end young girls torment him by pressing him into taking their photo before the famous peak: "Goodbye " he hisses through his teeth "Mount Fuji. Thanks for everything. Click." And the final story is "Villon's Wife " a small masterpiece which relates the awakening to power of a drunkard's wife. She transforms herself into a woman not to be defeated by anything not by her husband being a thief a megalomaniacal writer and a wastrel. Single-handedly she saves the day by concluding that "There's nothing wrong with being a monster is there? As long as we can stay alive."

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