Osamu Dazai and Yuko Tsushima -- The Suicidal and His Daughter
"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."(Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human) “Just as my mother belonged in the kitchen, my father belonged in the graveyard.”(Yuko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls) It came to light recently that the book I've been reading for this class has done little to capture my attention, and even now, some weeks from where-ever off in the audiobook I was, I dully remember that this artist was not kind to her children. Something about how her children-- who succeeded in life, came to write memiors-- became celebrated people , seemingly at the expense of her mother. I can't say whether or not she was a good mother, that artist-- I think people are odd like that, that they can be a good artist and a good person but a horrid parent . It's not that off, really, that some people succeed in different ways, I suppose it's more strange that someone that we come to idol may have so...