| Title | No Longer Human |
| Author | Osamu Dazai |
| Type | Novel |
| Year of Publication | 1948 |
| Rating | Click to rate this post! [Total: 1 Average: 5] |
No Longer Human Novel By Osamu Dazai (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku) is a 1948 Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. It is considered Dazai’s masterpiece and ranks as the second best-selling novel in Japan, behind Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro. The literal translation of the title, discussed by Donald Keene in his preface to the English translation, is “Disqualified From Being Human”.
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Summary
Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human, the second novel by this prominent post-war Japanese writer, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man caught between the breakdown of the traditions of an aristocratic family in northern Japan and the impact of Western ideas. Consequently, he feels “unqualified to be human” (literal translation of the Japanese title).
Review
This story tells the moving and fascinating story of a young man who finds himself caught between the rupture of the traditions of an aristocratic family in northern Japan and the impact of Western ideas.
About The Author
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 when he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo’s Tamagawa Reservoir. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.
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