Description: 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. Author: Osamu Dazai Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Published: 01/17/1973 Pages: 176 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.45lbs Size: 7.99h x 5.25w x 0.52d Book and Mortar Record Store No Longer Human -- Osamu Dazai 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. Author: Osamu Dazai Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Published: 01/17/1973 Pages: 176 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.45lbs Size: 7.99h x 5.25w x 0.52d ISBN: 9780811204811
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Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Literature & Fiction,Classics
Label: New Directions
Artist: Dazai, Osamu
Album: No Longer Human
Book Title: No Longer Human
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Year: 1973
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Psychological, Literary
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Osamu Dazai
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
