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No Longer Human
Now in a gift cloth edition, No Longer Human ponders profound alienation
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Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult.
Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness. Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic:
The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing. (The Japan Times)
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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai is highly introspective and has drawn contrasting reviews. Readers frequently cite its raw honesty, with some seeing Dazai's work as a reflection of personal vulnerabilities they'd prefer to ignore. The writing is described as deviant yet compelling, offering a unique blend of aristocratic elegance and delinquent despair, resonating well with contemporary themes of emotional introspection.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780811232432
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 November 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Contributors:
- Translated by Donald Keene
- Translated by Donald Keene
- Translated by Donald Keene
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 211.0mm
Weight: 352g
Pages: 192
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About the Author
Osamu Dazai was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday. Donald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.
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