No Longer Human

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No Longer Human

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ISBN: 9780811204811
author: Osamu Dazai
translator: Donald Keene
publishing house: New Directions
publication date: 1973 -6
series: New Directions Book
binding: Paperback
price: USD 13.52
number of pages: 176

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Osamu Dazai    translator: Donald Keene

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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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