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Ango Sakaguchi

Born

in Japan

January 01, 1906

Died

January 01, 1955

Genre

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From Niigata, Sakaguchi (坂口安吾) was one of a group of young Japanese writers to rise to prominence in the years immediately following Japan's defeat in World War II. In 1946 he wrote his most famous essay, titled "Darakuron" ("On Decadence"), which examined the role of bushido during the war. It is widely argued that he saw postwar Japan as decadent, yet more truthful than a wartime Japan built on illusions like bushido.
Ango was born in 1906, and was the 12th child of 13. He was born in the middle of a Japan perpetually at war. His father was the president of the Niigata Shinbun (Newspaper), a politician, and a poet.
Ango wanted to be a writer at 16. He moved to Tokyo at 17, after hitting a teacher who caught him truanting. His father died fr ...more

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	W lesie pod wiśniami w pełnym rozkwicie by Ango Sakaguchi, Karolina Bednarz (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 4,503 ratings — published 1947 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sobre la decadencia by Ango Sakaguchi, Lucía Hornedo Pérez-Aloe (Traductora) 3.95 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1942 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discourse on Decadence 4.06 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1946 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Idiote by Ango Sakaguchi, Edwige de Chavanes (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1946 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	堕落論 [Darakuron] 3.94 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1946 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ฆาตกรรม (ไม่?) ต่อเนื่อง by Ango Sakaguchi, ฉวีวงศ์ อัศวเสนา (Translator) 3.20 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1948 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Una mujer y la guerra by Ango Sakaguchi, Ivan Diaz Sancho (Traductor) 3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1946 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Гудбай. Рассказы: сборник by Ango Sakaguchi, Sakunosuke Oda, Osamu Dazai 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wind, Light, and the Twenty-Year-Old Me by Ango Sakaguchi, Doc Kane (Goodreads Author), Reiko Kane 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	盛開的櫻花林下 by Ango Sakaguchi, 坂口安吾, 鄒評 (Translator) 3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“He pursued false shadows and had nothing to show for it but exhaustion.”
― Sakaguchi Ango

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“To live, and to fall--this is the correct procedure, and can there be any easy shortcut to the saving of humanity outside it?”
― Ango Sakaguchi, Discourse on Decadence

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“Even if you stabbed the young virgin to death and thereby succeeded in preserving her purity, when once you begin to hear the banal footsteps of decadence, those matter-of-fact footsteps like the endless lapping of waves upon the shore, you cannot help but recognize that the petty nature of human action, the petty nature of that virgins purity thus preserved, is nothing more than a bubble-like, empty illusion.”
― Ango Sakaguchi, Discourse on Decadence

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