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Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Penguin Classics
March 2024
On Sale: May 7, 2024
192 pages
ISBN: 0143137506
EAN: 9780143137504
Kindle: B0BF8N562Z
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A 75th-anniversary edition of the classic Japanese novel
of alienation and the search for meaning and connection in
the modern world, in its first new English translation in
more than sixty years—for fans of Salinger, Camus,
Sartre, Hesse, and the hit anime series Bungo Stray
Dogs, which features a character based on No Longer
Human’s author, Osamu Dazai
A Penguin
Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition
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.
Semi-autobiographical, No Longer Human is the
final completed work of one of Japan’s most important
writers. It has come to “echo the sentiments of
youth” (The Mainichi Daily News) from post-war Japan
to the postmodern society of technology. Still one of the
ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is
a powerful exploration of an individual’s alienation
from society.
Translation and Introduction by David Boyd.
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