"Fantasy and Smile" Author: [Japanese] Dazai Osamu / [Japanese] Morimi Tomihiko Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction
Editor's Recommendation:
1. I am very happy to be born as a human being - Dazai Osamu's guide to a happy life?! With this book in hand, you can read it happily and discover another side of Dazai Osamu.
2. Dazai Osamu, the decadent leader of the Kanto rogue faction VS Morimi Tomihiko, the king of the Kansai delusional otaku, a cross-generational combination.
"Each of these works is filled with my own deep memories. At this moment, transcribing them one by one into the catalog, it feels like laying out rare and precious gems in the world." - Dazai Osamu
"I especially hope to recommend this anthology to young readers, so that they can know that Dazai Osamu can also write such whimsical and interesting articles. Although Dazai Osamu wrote many articles that are depressing and gloomy, he also wrote articles that make people laugh and dispel the haze." - Morimi Tomihiko
3. Weird, imaginative, playful, gorgeous, and no aware, a collection of 19 unexpected and interesting works by Dazai Osamu.
4. It’s funny because it’s tragic. It’s even funnier because it’s absurd. ——It turns out that Dazai Osamu can also write such a whimsical and interesting article!
Contents:
A cross-generational combination of two great literary talents in Japan, carefully compiled by Tomihiko Morimi, this collection includes 19 unexpected and interesting works by Dazai Osamu, allowing you to appreciate Dazai Osamu's unique "inspirational" literature.
The nineteen stories cover a variety of themes and elements such as history, fairy tales, love, and human nature. Vegetables that compare their growth in the garden and complain about their owners' indifference; a little white rabbit that seduces, uses, and abandons a fox in order to avenge his grandmother; a college student named Sano who falls in love with an angelic-looking girl and enjoys the sweetness of love with his lover in the fields; the situation of Japanese kimonos under the impact of foreign cultures, etc. In addition, there are also Dazai Osamu's understanding of various Japanese cultures, his essays, and his unique views on life and human nature.
Dazai Osamu did not write about all those tragic and absurd lives and spread them out before people, but gave these stories a glimmer of light so that people who read these words can live with determination.
As he wrote: “I want to live again. Even in the midst of extreme pride and extreme low living conditions, I still want to live.”
About the Author
author:
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948), whose real name is Tsushima Shuji, is a Japanese novelist and a representative writer of Japanese postwar rabble literature. His major works include the novels "Reverse", "The Setting Sun" and "No Longer Human".
Author:
Morimi Tomihiko is a fantasy novelist, many of whose works have been adapted into classic anime. His first novel, Tower of the Sun, based on life at Kyoto University, won the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. In 2007, he won the Yamaki Shugoro Award for The Night Is Short, Girls Go!, and was shortlisted for the 137th Naoki Prize and the second place at the Japan Bookstore Award. In 2008, he won the third place at the Japan Bookstore Award for The Utaten Family. In 2010, he won the 31st Japan SF Award for Penguin Highway.