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Brian Nishii
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Osamu Dazai
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Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. "Everything's gone," the father explains to his daughter: "Mr. Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, the Chino house, they all burned up." "Yeah, they all burned up," she said, still smiling.
"One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji," another autobiographical tale, is much more comic: Dazai finds himself unable to escape the famous views, the beauty once immortalized by Hokusai and now reduced to a cliche. In the end, young girls torment him by pressing him into taking their photo before the famous peak: "Goodbye," he hisses through his teeth, "Mount Fuji. Thanks for everything. Click."
And the final story is "Villon's Wife," a small masterpiece, which relates the awakening to power of a drunkard's wife. She transforms herself into a woman not to be defeated by anything, not by her husband being a thief, a megalomaniacal writer, and a wastrel. Single-handedly, she saves the day by concluding that "There's nothing wrong with being a monster, is there? As long as we can stay alive."
©1991, 1955, 2022 New Directions Publishing Corporation; Ralph McCarthy; Donald Keene (P)2022 New Directions Publishing Corp.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This story had no point.
- De icelandicponies en 12-30-21
De: Natsume Soseki, y otros
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Exit Betty
- De: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrado por: Anne Hancock
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 83
Soon-to-be heiress Betty Stanhope is a runaway bride, but not for the usual reasons - she didn't flee because of a change of heart. Reluctant about the wedding at the outset, the dutiful Betty reaches the altar to find that her groom is a different man altogether and someone she's dreaded most of her life! Before the wedding can proceed, she is taken to a room to recover from her fainting spell.
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4 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING
- De Peggy Palmer en 02-15-18
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Fifty-Two Stories
- 1883-1898
- De: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Better alternatives for Chekhov
- De Carol V. Macvey en 03-04-21
De: Anton Chekhov, y otros
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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Radio Dramatization
- De: Charles Dickens, Jerry Robbins - dramatization
- Narrado por: J. T. Turner, The Colonial Radio Players
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 42
The Colonial Radio Theatre pulls out all the stops in this magnificent production of the Charles Dickens classic Christmas story! This full cast dramatization features a powerful music score - from the magnificent, booming opening of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" to the frightening tones of "The Ghost of Christmas Future". It's a holiday treat both you and your family will enjoy for years to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great performance
- De Paul Pedraza en 11-23-22
De: Charles Dickens, y otros
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The Godmothers
- A Novel
- De: Camille Aubray
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 675
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 669
Meet the Godmothers: Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family's favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy French girl from upstate New York, escapes an abusive husband after falling in love with Johnny, the oldest of the brothers. Lucy, a tough-as-nails Irish nurse, ran away from a strict girls' home and marries Frankie, the sensuous middle son. And the glamorous Petrina, the family's only daughter, graduates with honors from Barnard College despite a past trauma that nearly caused a family scandal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Easy Enjoyable Read
- De Bunny en 06-23-21
De: Camille Aubray
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The Beautiful and Damned
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 930
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 757
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 762
Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."
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5 out of 5 stars
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i loved it
- De Emily en 01-20-05
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The Yellow Wallpaper
- De: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Narrado por: Jo Myddleton
- Duración: 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 976
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 970
Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Visceral Reaction
- De Em en 05-02-12
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Bel Ami
- De: Guy de Maupassant
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 159
Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami follows journalist Georges Duroy and his increasing stature among the Paris elite. With an immense thirst for power, Georges is not above an almost gleeful use of wealthy mistresses to achieve his ends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bel Ami or how to socially climb in 1885 Paris
- De Neil Chisholm en 12-03-13
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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: June Angela
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
- De Lucky en 10-19-22
De: Osamu Dazai
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Crime and Punishment
- Penguin Classics
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oliver Ready
- Narrado por: Don Warrington
- Duración: 25 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society's laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Best translation on audible – mediocre narrator
- De Fantod en 04-29-20
De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, y otros
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
- De: William Dean Howells
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Howells’ best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners. After garnering a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position. The consequences of this endeavor are both humorous and tragic as the greedy Silas brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important for the Era
- De Brent en 03-19-23
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The Love Note
- De: Tracy Rees
- Narrado por: Jasmine Blackborow
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
Perfect for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Villa in Italy. Blue lives a charmed life. From her family's townhouse in Richmond, she lives a life of luxury and couldn't want for anything - well, on the surface at least. Then, on the night of her 21st birthday, her father makes a startling toast: he will give his daughter's hand to whichever man can capture her heart best in the form of a love letter. But Blue has other ideas, and, unwilling to play at her father's bewildering games, she sets out on her own path to find her own destiny....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Love Note❣️
- De Leslie Gail Mnich en 10-25-20
De: Tracy Rees
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A Suitable Boy (Dramatised)
- De: Vikram Seth
- Narrado por: Ayesha Dharker, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, full cast
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 347
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 283
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 277
A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families: the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans, and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married. But not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with.
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2 out of 5 stars
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would prefer unabridged naration
- De Tamshine en 07-07-11
De: Vikram Seth
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I Am a Cat
- De: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 21 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performance!
- De mz en 04-03-20
De: Soseki Natsume, y otros
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The Bermondsey Bookshop
- De: Mary Gibson
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 177
Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss' struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate has only her own brave spirit and dreams of finding her father to keep her going. She has barely enough money to feed herself, or to pay the rent. The factory where she works begins to lay off people and it isn't long before she has fallen into the hands of the violent local money-lender.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A glimpse into the past
- De Luci-Lu en 10-27-21
De: Mary Gibson
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Belle Cora
- A Novel
- De: Phillip Margulies
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat, Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 25 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora", madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding; a vicious newspaper editor plots her downfall; a preacher looks at her from across his pulpit and tries to forget that once she was his wife. Merchant's daughter, farm girl, prostitute, mother - the only thing that never changes is her tireless pursuit of the one man who can see her for who she really is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent
- De Patricia en 05-15-20
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Main Street (Annotated): 100th Anniversary Edition
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Kitty Hendrix
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
A biting satire that countered the American myth of wholesome small-town life with a depiction of narrow-minded provincialism, it was to some degree based on Lewis's own experience of growing on Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Set in mid-1910s, it depicts the struggles of Carol Kennicott, a city girl, as she tries to adapt to small town life, having left her librarian job and St. Paul, Minnesota to marry Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie. Dismayed by the town’s drabness and the conforming, petty inhabitants, Carol optimistically sets out to improve the town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Are Your Assumptions About Yourself & Others
- De Benny Fife en 02-06-20
De: Sinclair Lewis
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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Self-Portraits
- Stories
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
In these short stories, collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy, we can see just how closely Dazai’s life mirrored his art, and vice versa, as the writer/narrator falls from grace, rises to fame, and falls again. Addiction, debt, shame, and despair dogged Dazai until his self-inflicted death, and yet despite all the lies and deception he resorted to in life, there is an almost fanatical honesty to his writing.
De: Osamu Dazai
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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: June Angela
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
- De Lucky en 10-19-22
De: Osamu Dazai
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Schoolgirl
- De: Osamu Dazai, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Traci Kato Kiriyama
- Duración: 1 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short and introspective
- De brandy en 12-12-23
De: Osamu Dazai, y otros
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No Longer Human
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 4 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A voice of depression
- De Owen en 08-28-24
De: Osamu Dazai
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No Longer Human - Confessions of a Faulty Man
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: Simon Jackson
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō, whose calm exterior hides his tormented soul. Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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good
- De fatima en 05-06-24
De: Osamu Dazai
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A Short History of Decay
- De: E. M. Cioran
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depressingly Inspiring
- De Amazon Customer en 03-12-23
De: E. M. Cioran
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Self-Portraits
- Stories
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
In these short stories, collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy, we can see just how closely Dazai’s life mirrored his art, and vice versa, as the writer/narrator falls from grace, rises to fame, and falls again. Addiction, debt, shame, and despair dogged Dazai until his self-inflicted death, and yet despite all the lies and deception he resorted to in life, there is an almost fanatical honesty to his writing.
De: Osamu Dazai
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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: June Angela
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
- De Lucky en 10-19-22
De: Osamu Dazai
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Schoolgirl
- De: Osamu Dazai, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Traci Kato Kiriyama
- Duración: 1 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short and introspective
- De brandy en 12-12-23
De: Osamu Dazai, y otros
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No Longer Human
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 4 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A voice of depression
- De Owen en 08-28-24
De: Osamu Dazai
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No Longer Human - Confessions of a Faulty Man
- De: Osamu Dazai
- Narrado por: Simon Jackson
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō, whose calm exterior hides his tormented soul. Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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good
- De fatima en 05-06-24
De: Osamu Dazai
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A Short History of Decay
- De: E. M. Cioran
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depressingly Inspiring
- De Amazon Customer en 03-12-23
De: E. M. Cioran