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No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai. It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a facade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug ...
Mar 15, 2022 · No Longer Human tells the tale of Oba Yozo, a miserable man who considers himself a faulty human being. His story is told mostly in the first-person perspective, with a personal-journal...
Jul 6, 2023 · A gloomy young man feels deeply alienated from society. He is preoccupied with his inability to reveal himself to others but has learned to act the clown; he notes that, since childhood, he has ...
Sep 29, 2023 · Published in 1948, No Longer Human is a partly autobiographical work as it loosely traces Dazai’s life through the eyes of the fictitious protagonist Oba Yozo. Like Dazai, Yozo also hailed...
May 12, 2020 · Is it, after all, called No Longer Human (in Donald Keene’s translation Disqualified From Being Human), and it lives unsparingly up to its title. By the end of the three notebooks the “disqualification,” we are told, is complete.
No Longer Human, published in 1948, is a timeless piece of writing that portrays the sense of isolation of Oba Yozo, a confused child who became a troubled man; roughly, a deceitful person unable to show his true nature to most people, a man disqualified as a human being.
If Yōzō were truly “no longer human,” he would take this gloom and accept it, becoming one of the horrid humans he fears. Instead, he is haunted by the tenderness of being human that others fail to fathom.
Whereas No Longer Human is set before Japan’s involvement in World War II, The Setting Sun deals with the immediate aftermath of the war. Both novels, however, take stock of Japanese society and feature protagonists from well-to-do families.
Jun 16, 2021 · JAPAN: ‘ Ningen shikkaku ‘, literally translating to ‘No longer human’, is a 1948 novel by Osamu Dazai. The brilliantly haunting novel is now considered a classic of Japanese literature and is the second most selling novel in Japan after Natsume Sōseki’s ‘Kokoro’.
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