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.
Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is
an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the
individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as
relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)
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