No Longer Human – Hardcover

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No Longer Human – Hardcover – Osamu Dazai

Now in a retro gift cloth edition, No Longer Human ponders profound alienation: 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.

The book tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance. The original title translates as “Disqualified as a human being” or “A failed human”. The book was published one month after Dazai’s suicide at the age of 38. No Longer Human is considered a classic of postwar Japanese literature and Dazai’s masterpiece. It enjoys considerable popularity among younger readers