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Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells 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. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title). Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world . . . suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, . . . but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.
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1 primary book人間失格 is a 1-book series first released in 1958 with contributions by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene, and 3 others.
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so uh i still don't get it. what was the plot again? only giving it 3 cos it had some nice intricate quotes and cos my friend recommended it so i gotta put some respect on his fav book (+ also i just found out at the end of the book that his name is yozo wtf)
My future article on post-humanism will greatly benefit from this book.
this is like if the “we live in a society” meme became a book.
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