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Momotarō, Click-Clack Mountain, The Sparrow Who Lost Her Tongue, The Stolen Wen, Urashima-san ... The father reads these old tales to the children. Though he's shabbily dressed & looks to be a complete fool, this father is a singular man in his own right. He has an unusual knack for making up stories. Once upon a time, long, long ago ... Even as he reads the picture book aloud in a strangely imbecilic voice, another, somewhat more elaborate tale is brewing inside him. Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Ojī-san to Obā-san ("Grandmother & Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, & of course Urashima Tarō (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult & nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, & often hilarious. Dazai Osamu (太宰 治; 1909–1948) One of the

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Author

Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (translation), Joel Cohn (introduction)

Publisher

Kurodahan Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9784861271410

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction