Fiction
No Longer Human
Author
Osamu Dazai , Translated by Donald Keene
Language
English
ISBN
9780811204811
Pages
177
Weight
0.300 Kg
Published
1973
Format
Paperback თხელყდიანი
Description
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.