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Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) 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 Oji-san to Oba-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Taro (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious. In spite of the "gloom and doom" atmosphere always cited in reviews of The Setting Sun and the later No Longer Human, though, Dazai's cutting wit and rich humor are evident in the entire body of his work. His literature depicts the human condition in painfully blunt and realistic terms, but, like life itself, is often accompanied by a smile.… (plus d'informations)
The idea of framing these stories as embellished retelling as diversion for the author’s children as they hide in an air raid shelter during a bombing was enough to get me interested in this book. To cast fairy tales against the backdrop of modern warfare is fruitful territory, Dazai probably wasn’t the first to do it and certainly won’t be the last. Where this this book is really special is the way that it plays with the narrative - by specifying from the outset that these are off the cuff, improvised renditions of (apparently) famous fairy tales give the author all kinds of room to fit in his own flights of fancy, alterations, and commentary. If the author is a good writer, it’s nice to read these kind of free flowing books, where the lack of itinerary is the point of the journey and you can sort of just hang out for a bit and see where it all goes.
Having just finished Dazai’s No Longer Human, it’s nice to see a more whimsical side of his work. Sometimes the most morose and depressive people have the best sense of humor, when they are up to it. ( )
Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) 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 Oji-san to Oba-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Taro (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious. In spite of the "gloom and doom" atmosphere always cited in reviews of The Setting Sun and the later No Longer Human, though, Dazai's cutting wit and rich humor are evident in the entire body of his work. His literature depicts the human condition in painfully blunt and realistic terms, but, like life itself, is often accompanied by a smile.
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Having just finished Dazai’s No Longer Human, it’s nice to see a more whimsical side of his work. Sometimes the most morose and depressive people have the best sense of humor, when they are up to it. (