"Roman dourou" (Roman lantern) by Dazai Osamu. This is a collection of short stories including "Roman lantern" and 15 others. The first story, "Roman lantern", is a parody of Rapunzel delivered in relay style by 5 different authors. The background and personality of each author are presented lively and succinctly, and the story itself was very funny due to the lack of coordination between authors (not much resemblance to Grimm's version of Rapunzel). This was a very enjoyable story with a happy ending. Just this story alone would have made the book worth reading again.
It gets even better -- a few pages later was "Fukusou ni tsuite" (Regarding fashion), a story on Dazai describing his own fashion sense, how he is very stingy when it comes to spending on clothes, and how a piece of red clothes got him in trouble. This story is probably one of Dazai's most humorous writings, on par with "Chikukendan". The rest of this book is more serious, covering topics such as Japan's participation in World War II and obituaries for fellow writers. Even for most of those stories, there is varying amount of humor to be found. This book should be remembered as a collection of Dazai's more positive works, and for that it's definitely worth reading again.
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