The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu…
Want to Read $ 8.52"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
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1. Hell Screen
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.20
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more
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- classics
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- japanese literature
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"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
2. Ms Ice Sandwich
By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai
3.78
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- short stories
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- japanese literature
- asian literature
- japan
3. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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- fiction
- novels
- classics
- short stories
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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4. 文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
By: Kafka Asagiri , Sango Harukawa , 朝霧 カフカ , None
3.69
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Yi Neng woShi iAn Yue suruXiong E naDi Xia Zu Zhi , potomahuia. sonoGan Bu Tai Zai Zhi toXia Ji Gou… read more
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5. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Yoshihiro Tatsumi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the sou… read more
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6. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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7. 文豪ストレイドッグス 1 [Bungō Stray Dogs 1]
By: Kafka Asagiri , Sango Harukawa , 朝霧 カフカ , None
5.00
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Gu Er Yuan woZhui waretaQing Nian Zhong Dao Dun ha, toaruZi Sha Zhi Yuan noNan woZhu keru. Nan noMi… read more
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8. Kappa
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more
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9. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
10. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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11. All the Lovers in the Night
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more
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- literary fiction
- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- japan
"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
12. 文豪ストレイドッグス BEAST 4 (Bungo Stray Dogs: Beast Manga, #4)
By: Kafka Asagiri
4.76
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
白と黒が辿った、もう一つの文豪ストレイドッグス──完結。 譲れぬ誓いを胸に、死力を尽くして激突する芥川と敦。激闘の果てに、二人はこの世界の真実を知ることになる──。大人気『文スト』IFストーリ… read more
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13. Heaven
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.80
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more
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"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
14. The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
By: Chūya Nakahara
4.30
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Born in 1907, Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan’s early modern poets… read more
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- japanese literature
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"Song of the Sheep (to Yasuhara Yoshihiro) III She trusted me completely, confided in me completely, her heart was the colour of an orange; that tenderness did not overflow, nor did it cringe away, li…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Image (II) Over every extinguished past, tears gush out. The castle wall is desiccated; the wind blows. The grass waves; over the hills, across the fields no rest; white angels countenances do not ap…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Quietude Nothing visits me; my heart is quiet. It was Sunday’s roofed school paths, - everyone gone to the meadow. The floorboards have a cold shine, small birds are singing in the garden. The half-s…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Lost Hope Vanishing into the dark sky, my young day’s blazing hope. Like a summer night’s star, even now visible far off in the sky, even now. Vanishing into the dark sky, my young day’s dreams and h…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
15. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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- novella
- mental health
- short stories
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- japanese literature
- asian literature
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- japan
"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
16. Bungo Stray Dogs: Dazai, Chuuya, Age Fifteen
By: Kafka Asagiri
4.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
太宰と中也、双黒の始まりの物語を完全コミック化! ヨコハマの街にて、武装探偵社とポートマフィアがしのぎを削る“現在”より七年前。ポートマフィアに所属する少年・太宰治は、と呼ばれる集団のリーダー… read more
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17. 文豪ストレイドッグス STORM BRINGER
By: Kafka Asagiri
4.73
Format: 484 pages, Paperback
中原中也とは“何”なのか――? 今明かされる双黒の「十六歳」の物語。 太宰治とともに『荒覇吐事件』を終息させ、ポートマフィアに加入して1年。 幹部の座を狙う中原中也の前に現れたのは、中也を弟… read more
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"I will mourn for you, Verlaine,"-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス STORM BRINGER
"Verlaine – “You sound like you’re certain he’s human."-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス STORM BRINGER
"Master Chuuya and Dazai stood side by side. There was something surprisingly perfect about it."-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス STORM BRINGER
"Maybe that's what you wanna do, but don't shove your beliefs down my throat. 'Cause that ain't how I feel at all."-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス STORM BRINGER
18. Of Dogs and Walls
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.68
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more
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"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls
19. Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 7 (light novel): Dazai, Chuuya, Age Fifteen (Volume 7) (Bungo Stray Dogs (light novel), 7)
By: Kafka Asagiri
4.58
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Not long after Ougai Mori takes the reins of the Port Mafia, his right-hand man, Osamu Dazai, has a… read more
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20. 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]
By: Kafka Asagiri
4.34
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
異能兵器により横浜消滅!? 原作者自身による小説版、待望の第4弾!! 盗賊捕縛の依頼を受けて探偵社の一行が訪れたのは、横浜近海を“航海する島”、スタンダード島。しかしそこでは今まさにテロリスト… read more
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"Soon, those barbarians will realize they chose the wrong place to try to play God."-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]
"I know I'm turning forty-three this year, but is it still okay for me to cry in public?"-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]
"I won't go back to the darkness! I am going to live! Is it really so wrong of me to want to live?!"-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]
"Ha-ha-ha! I never thought you'd be able to scare me like that! You've grown, Atsushi! The only way I knew how to reward you was by showing you my secret technique: Cardiac Arrest."-Kafka Asagiri, 文豪ストレイドッグス 55Minutes [Bungō Stray Dogs 55 Minutes]
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21. The Setting Sun[SETTING SUN][Paperback]
By: OsamuDazai
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
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