2021 I am forgotten

[Anonymous No.19878643]

[Anonymous No.19878720]

>>19878643
good, he was a pussy

[Anonymous No.19878768]

>>19878643
He wrote like two books and you can't exactly translate nip into english very well. He's definitely not forgotten in Nip world

[Anonymous No.19878802]

>>19878768
>you can't exactly translate nip into english very well.
This. I spent a few hours a day each day learning Japanese over the lockdowns. The way japanese expresses things, from an English perspective, is super autistic and the two languages have completely different word order. Like a sentence like
>通りに沿って桜のきが植えてあります。
Literally means "the street's alongside, cherry blossom's tree planting exists" and it's how you say "there are cherry blossom trees planted alongside the street".

[Anonymous No.19878806]

He blew up on tik tok or some zoomer shit recently. I work at a used book store and teenagers have been asking for his books constantly in the past half year. Compare this to before when I’d have maybe a couple people per Year asking for him

[Anonymous No.19878853]

>>19878768
No he wrote a lot of books. You're just a philistine and a pseud

[Anonymous No.19879839]

>>19878806
>mfw Dazai becomes normie

HE WAS OUR TALISMAN WHAT HAPPENED

[Anonymous No.19879891]

>>19878806
theres an anime character named after him

[Anonymous No.19880456]

>>19879839
He was always normie in Japan

[Anonymous No.19880461]

>>19879839
A lot of people are miserable right now and some people made videos about him.

[Anonymous No.19880502]

Average literary skills + being Japanese = OMG MUST READ

Frankly, J literature is not very good, except for Soseki, Endo and Mishima (the only 3 genuinely good J authors I can think of). The rest (Kawabata, Oe, Tanizaki, Dazai, Akutagawa etc) is just a bunch of immature and amateurish scribbles.

[Anonymous No.19880562]

>>19880502
This, tbqh. They're just second-rate Western epigones.

[Anonymous No.19882127]

>>19879891
What anime?

[Anonymous No.19882550]

>>19882127
bungo stray dogs, i havent seen it so i have no idea what its about

[Anonymous No.19883605]

>>19880502
>Kobo Abe and Taeko Kono aren't good
I wish you could appreciate them.

[Anonymous No.19883697]

>>19883605
He hasn't read any of those writers. Whenever someone on the internet declares anything with authority like that, they haven't any idea what they are talking about

[Anonymous No.19883709]

>>19879891
We must save the Japanese from weebs. How??? Will a third nuke work?

[Anonymous No.19883762]

>>19880502
>Mishima
Highly overrated. I tried reading Confessions of a Mask, and I think you have to be an unironic faggot like him to appreciate his aesthetics. The Golden Pavilion was pretty good, but I couldn't stand anything else he wrote.

Dazai is based, partly because he made Mishima seethe

[Anonymous No.19884267]

>>19883762
Mishima said he thought Dazai as a writer was superb but he personally didn't like the kind of things Dazai endorsed in his writings.

[Anonymous No.19884681]

>>19878802
The difference in word order is probably one of the easiest things to fix. The real problem is that there's a very little overlap in words. Something like mizu = water works but most other words have differing connotations or even just different meanings.
Imagine trying to translate simething like "semishigure" in a way that doesn't obstruct the flow of a sentence.
Idioms of course are even worse. Something like shirahana no ya would basically have to be deconstructed.

[Anonymous No.19885263]

>>19883709
i fear that would only make them stronger

[Anonymous No.19885293]

Why would I read Dazai when I could just read my own diary. It’s the same thing. No aesthetic bliss just pain and thoughts of suicide.

[Anonymous No.19885398]

>>19885293
because there is no sex involved in your diary

[Anonymous No.19885567]

>>19885398
Have you read it?

[Anonymous No.19885683]

>>19885567
yes. Open the door finally and let me in dammit