A type ofautofictional Japanese literary genre; anovel written in that genre.
1983, Irena Powell,Writers and Society in Modern Japan, Springer,→ISBN,page55:
Dazai's novels are largely fiction written in theI-novel spirit. What this means is that although the events described in the novels did not necessarily take place in Dazai's life, the novels as a whole essentially reflect the reality of his life and his feelings at the time, and as such they were accepted by critics and readers alike as confessionalI-novels.
