Vol. 5August 2026
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太宰治 · Japanese

Opening with a Verlaine epigraph, this loose sequence of vignettes follows a narrator who, resolved on suicide, postpones his death for a length of summer cloth.

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Opening with a Verlaine epigraph, this loose sequence of vignettes follows a narrator who, resolved on suicide, postpones his death for a length of summer cloth. Early Dazai Osamu, between despair and irony.

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