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Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene, Ralph McCarthy: Early Light (Hardcover, 2022, New Directions Publishing Corporation) 3 stars

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates …

Drunk men, one only slightly useless

3 stars

Three short stories, all featuring a drunk, somewhat useless man. I liked the second and third, about a writer’s ambivalence towards Mt. Fuji and a woman who ends up happily working at a bar to get away from her broke, no-good husband, respectively.