No Longer Human
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.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. His 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. Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)
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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.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. His 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. Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)
H | B | T | Gramm
211 mm | 142 mm | 22 mm | 355 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
FSK
0
Ausgabe
Hardcover
Verlag
Norton
ISBN-10
0811232433
ISBN-13
9780811232432
Autor
Osamu Dazai
Weitere Mitwirkende
Keene, Donald
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
177
Themen
Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Japan, Klassische Lyrik und Dichtung vor dem 20. Jahrhundert, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Heranwachsen
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