No Longer Human
Title | No Longer Human PDF eBook |
Author | 太宰治 |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811204811 |
A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage.
No Longer Human
Title | No Longer Human PDF eBook |
Author | Osamu Dazai |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1973-01-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811220079 |
The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. 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.
Stones To Abbigale
Title | Stones To Abbigale PDF eBook |
Author | Onision |
Publisher | Onision |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2015-03-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0692418636 |
I want to be direct, my name is Greg. I go by “Onision” online. This book is made up of events that occurred in my own life mixed with fiction from the made up life of James. James is essentially a better version of myself. His home, his school & his life all resemble my own at his age. The people James analyzes and is surrounded by are not so unlike those I’ve known as well. I have experienced much of the loss James has however his happier moments are more often than not also mine. I want to share my story without it being purely non-fiction. I simply felt this approach would make for a far better book. Stones to Abbigale is not just my book, it is a piece of who I am.
No Longer Human
Title | No Longer Human PDF eBook |
Author | Usamaru Furuya |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | 9781935654377 |
This final volume of the critically acclaimed series, reveals Yozo Ohba's quick and tragic demise. After what appears to be a brief period of marital bliss from the budding cartoonist, a shocking revelation reopens deep emotional wounds leading him towards reclusion and eventual self destruction. A modern classic which explores the mind of an alienated man who feels he is a spectator in his own life. Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya has breathed new life into the classic with his beautiful graphic art.
No Longer Human
Title | No Longer Human PDF eBook |
Author | Junji Ito,Ichiro Nakayama,Hirokatsu Kihara |
Publisher | VIZ Media LLC |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 2019-12-17 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1974715795 |
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. Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death. Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. -- VIZ Media
The Setting Sun
Title | The Setting Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Osamu Dazai |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2022-10-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811234443 |
Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of post-war Japanese literature
No Longer Human
Title | No Longer Human PDF eBook |
Author | Osamu Dazai |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-06-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593511581 |
The classic Japanese novel of alienation and the search for meaning and connection in the modern world, in a brilliant new translation—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.