No Longer Human and the Setting Sun

A Collection of Famous Novels by Osamu Dazai

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Henry F. Williams, Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human and the Setting Sun (2022, Independently Published)

English language

Published Oct. 26, 2022 by Independently Published.

ISBN:
979-8-4318-9275-2
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“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.”

I read the Donald Keene English translation, titled No Longer Human. I had a phase of reading Mishima Yukio a long time ago, and I had heard about this book even back then. Yet this is the first time I have managed to actually pick it up; it’s a short read, but don’t let that fool you—it is a dense and thought-provoking book. The protagonist is a character whose mindset is perhaps incredibly alien to most of us, and at the same time, has remnants of relatable desires, emotions, and thoughts. Who hasn’t felt the loneliness and alienation Yōzo feels in the novel, at least once? That this novel is a thinly veiled retelling of the author’s own only hammers that point further. The …

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