No Longer Human - Hardcover

Dazai, Osamu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811232433 ISBN 13: 9780811232432

Verlag: Norton & Company, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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. Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: “The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing.” (The Japan Times)

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.


Donald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0811232433
• ISBN 13: 9780811232432
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 177
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