No Longer Human

No Longer Human
Authors
Dazai, Osamu
Publisher
New Directions
Tags
literary fiction , classics
ISBN
9780811220071
Date
1948-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.40 MB
Lang
en
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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 moments of human connection and tenderness.