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No Longer Human
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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. Oba Yozo's 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.
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Product details
- Paperback | 176 pages
- 135 x 203 x 18mm | 209g
- 05 Feb 2019
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- New York, United States
- English
- Revised ed.
- 0811204812
- 9780811204811
- 1,833
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Back cover copy
This story tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.
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Review quote
Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful.--The New York Times Book Review
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