• Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature
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• no.82
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• pp.473-492
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• 2018

In this article, I have confirmed that the postwar Japan society surrounding the DAZAI Osamu literature has complex and diverse realities. 1) In 1948, the publishing world, which had been in recession, for media such as newspapers and magazines actively reporting on DAZAI's death, and the presence of readers who were starved for intellectual anxiety, was able to sell many of DAZAI's works as books, and this was the beginning of the DAZAI boom and 'DAZAI myth'. 2) Three people who lived in the post- war appeared in "Mrs. Feast" released in January 1948. Sasajima is a medical professor in Tokyo who returned from the war. He is a person who embodies the difficult situation after the war, clearly grasping the situation and shaking it as a light selfish person. 'Mrs. Feast' does not reveal her feelings, even before her deep sense of loss and sadness, economic, and physical difficulties due to her husband's life-and-death uncertainty, and served. The narrator, <I>, rescues 'Mrs. Feast' by understanding her suffering and ultimately assimilating to it. 3) The relationship of the three persons of "Mrs. Feast" resembles the relation of Horiki, Yojo, and Madam of "No Longer Human". "Mrs. Feast" will be a new example of the "New DAZAI myth" developed by the media after the war in the sense that it gives deep sympathy and comfort to the modern readers embodying loneliness.