0811232433 
Hardback No longer human / Osamu Dazai ; translated by Sam Bett.
Publication year: 2022
Format: Hardback
Publisher: New York : New Directions Books,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780811232432 (hbk.) :
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
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.
Original title: Ningen shikkaku. English
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192 pages ; 21 cm
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