No One KnowsNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when were adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period until then? No one bothers to teach us that. Osamu Dazai was a master raconteur who plumbed, in an addictive, easy style, the absurd complexities of life in a society whose expectations cannot be met without sacrificing one's individual ideals on the altar