Osamu Dazai was born on June 19, 1909. He did not live long: on June 13, 1948, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the waters of the Tamagawa River...

He began writing early, the first publication took place in 1924, the young writer was then 15 years old.

The reading public, mainly young people, considered him their idol - for his completely extraordinary and in many ways close to her perception of the world, for his deepest psychology, for his amazing unusual style (Osamu Dazai studied at the university at the Faculty of French Literature, was strongly influenced by Chekhov ).

An innovator, he continued the traditions of Japanese literature, introducing into them the spirit of modernity. In particular, the “Confession” that we bring to your attention was written in the ancient genre of “watakushi-sesetsu” (a novel about oneself).