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Temporarily out of stock
Title: No Longer Human
Author: DAZAI OSAMU
Illustrator: KEENE DONALD (TR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2019
Imprint: TUTTLE PUBLISHING
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) is the story of a young man caught between the disintegration of the traditions of his aristocratic provincial family and the impact of modern Western ideas. Largely auto biographical, No Longer Human explores Dazai s feeling of being 'disqualified from being human' (the literal translation of the original title) a sense of loss and anomie that remains strong in Japan even today among those who struggle to reconcile their attachments to tradition with the necessities of living in a global economy.
'To know the nature of despair and to triumph over it in the ways that are possible to oneself imagination was Dazai s only weapon is surely a sort of grace.' Richard Gilman, Jubilee
ISBN: 9784805310175
Dimension: 203mm X 130mm
Edition: 01