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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 mo...
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4087520013
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9784087520019
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January 6, 2022
The most-sold japanese novel of all time. Some of those feelings Dazai shares, about his childhood, about his disconnect with the world in general, i found to be incredibly on point. The whole thing is sort of pseudo-autobiographical, much like Mishima's 仮面の告白, so he uses a different name, twists his own life around a bit, but it's still about him of course. And i've probably never read a more personally relatable book than this one. Not even so much regarding the greater context of his life, bu
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