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Otogizōshi - Kurodahan · Dazai Osamu wrote ˚e Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months...
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Kurodahan Press is proud to announce: Otogizōshi: e Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu Translated by Ralph F. McCarthy Introduction by Joel Cohn ISBN: 978-4-902075-40-3 Pages: 142 Size: 5" x 8" (127mm x 203mm), soſtcover List Price: US$9.00 Momotarō, Click-Clack Mountain, e Sparrow Who Lost Her Tongue, e Stolen Wen, Urashima-san . . . e father reads these old tales to the children. ough he's shabbily dressed and looks to be a complete fool, this father is a singular man in his own right. He has an unusual knack for making up stories. Once upon a time, long, long ago . . . Even as he reads the picture book aloud in a strangely imbecilic voice, another, somewhat more elaborate tale is brewing inside him. Dazai Osamu wrote e Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. e 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 Ojī-san to Obā-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Tarō (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. e resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and oſten hilarious. Available through Ingram, Bertrams, or your regular source of supply.
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Kurodahan Press is proud to announce:
Otogizōshi: �e Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
Translated by Ralph F. McCarthy
Introduction by Joel Cohn
ISBN: 978-4-902075-40-3
Pages: 142
Size: 5" x 8" (127mm x 203mm), so�cover
List Price: US$9.00
Momotarō, Click-Clack Mountain, �e Sparrow W h o L o s t H e r T o n g u e , � e S t o l e n W e n , Urashima-san . . . �e father reads these old tales to the children. �ough he's shabbily dressed and looks to be a complete fool, this father is a singular man in his own right. He has an unusual knack for making up stories.
Once upon a time, long, long ago . . .
Even as he reads the picture book aloud in a strangely imbecilic voice, another, somewhat more elaborate tale is brewing inside him.
Dazai Osamu wrote �e Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Paci�c War. �e 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 Ojī-san to Obā-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Tarō (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing di�cult and nuanced moral dilemmas. �e resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and o�en hilarious.
Available through Ingram, Bertrams, or your regular source of supply.
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