No Longer Human [electronic resource]
Dazai, Osamu1973
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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.
Main title:
No Longer Human [electronic resource] / Osamu Dazai
Author:
Dazai, Osamu, AuthorKeene, Donald, Translator
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : New Directions, 1973
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
Reading grade level: 6-9
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
OSAMU DAZAI was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.
ISBN:
9780811220071
Language:
English
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BRN:
3095032
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