No Longer Human By Osamu Dazai Paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780811204811
- Book Title
- No Longer Human
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Item Length
- 7.9 in
- Publication Year
- 1973
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Literary
- Item Weight
- 8.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811204812
ISBN-13
9780811204811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
477398
Product Key Features
Book Title
No Longer Human
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1973
Topic
Psychological, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
58-009509
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Seventy-five years later, No Longer Human still reads with an apt urgency. As the musician Patti Smith once put it, Dazai 'wrote at the pace of a dying man, yearning for ... the solution to an unresolved equation.', What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide., No Longer Human is his masterpiece, though all his work is worthy. Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe. , Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment., From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai's writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant.
Dewey Decimal
741.5/952
Synopsis
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 ), The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas., 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.
LC Classification Number
PL825.A8
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- Dec 23, 2021
depressing but good
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Heavy but a good read
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- Dec 21, 2021
Great!!
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- Jan 30, 2024
Crappy print
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- Jun 26, 2019
Even though it is written in the 1950s, this book is still relevant today, and not just for Japanese.
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