Download or read book Crackling Mountain and Other Stories written by Osamu Dazai and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of previously unpublished work has been carefully chosen to present the most fully rounded portrait of Osamu Dazai, the tragic genius of 20th century Japanese literature. By turns hilarious, introspective, ironic, and mystical, these remarkable tales reveal the full range of Dazai’s talents, now lost to the world thanks to his dissolute life and eventual suicide.