Self-Portraits - Osamu Dazai Soort Spel_Family Game arguing that only by accepting

arguing that only by accepting yourself - and the flaws which make you who you are - can you have compassionate and fulfilling relationships with your partner

and the mind-numbing despair when a relationship suddenly comes to an end

What it was like to emerge as a mega-star in his mid-thirties and remain so for decades to come

Fourteen nights in a town full of bullies with no curfews and no rules

and (most importantly) how to win the game

Self-Portraits - Osamu Dazai Soort Spel_Family Game arguing that only by accepting"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death and the death of others. Faced with pressure to conform, he declared his individuality to the world in all its self involved, self conscious, and self hating