Cover of Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai No Longer Human

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English

Expected delivery time 14-30 days

Book information

W W Norton & Co Inc

USA

1973

Paperback

176

Standard

326976

978-0-8112-0481-1

0-8112-0481-2

Annotation

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.

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