No longer human / by Osamu Dazai; translated by Donald Keene.
By: Dazai, Osamu
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Contributor(s): Keene, Donald [Translator.].
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BookPlace of publication: New YorkPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationDate of publication: 1958Description: 177 pages: 21 cm.ISBN: 9780811204811.Subject(s): Men -- Japanese -- Fiction | Manners and customs -- Japan -- FictionDDC classification: F D338 1958 NOL Summary: Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of this novel 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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Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of this novel 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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