I think that dazai Osamu would have been gratified by the reviews his novel the setting sun received when the English translation was published in the United States even though some of the critics were distressed by the picture the book drew of contemporary Japan they one and all discussed it in the terms reserved for works of importance no trace of the condescension often bestowed on writings emanating from remote parts of the world and for once nobody thought to use the damning adjective "exquisite" about an unquestionably Japanese product it was judged among it's peers, the moving and beautiful books of the present generation 3
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no longer human by Osamu dazai
no longer human by Osamu dazai
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mine has been a life of much shame
I can't even guess what it must be to live the life
of a human being
portraying himself as a failure the protagonist of
dazai Osamu,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 continues through high school were 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 it's fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness