No Longer Human PDF
No Longer Human is written by Osamu Dazai One of the famous novels.
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
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no longer human pdf: 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.
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Yozo's experiences are certainly not typical of all Japanese intellectuals, but the sense of isolation which they feel between themselves and the rest of the world is perhaps akin to Yozo's conviction that he alone is not "human."
Again, his frustrations at the university, his unhappy involvement with the Communist Party, his disastrous love affairs, all belong to the past of many writers of today. At the same time, detail after detail clearly is derived from the individual experience of Osamu Dazai himself.
The temptation is strong to consider the book as a barely fictionalized autobiography, but this would be a mistake, I am sure. Dazai had the creative artistry of a great cameraman. His lens is often trained on moments of his own past, but thanks to his brilliant skill in composition and selection his photographs are not what we expect to find cluttering an album.
There is nothing of the meandering reminiscer about Dazai; with him, all is sharp, brief and evocative. Even if each scene of No Longer Human were the exact reproduction of an incident from Dazai's life- of course, this is not the case-his technique would qualify the whole of the work as one of original fiction.
No Longer Human is not a cheerful book, yet its effect is far from that of a painful wound gratuitously inflicted on the reader. As a reviewer (Richard Gilman in Jubilee) wrote of Dazai's earlier novel, "Such is the power of art to transfigure what is objectively ignoble or depraved that The Setting Sun is actually deeply moving and even inspiriting...
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." source: no longer human. p: 9 - 10
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- Book Title: No Longer Human
- Author of Book: Osamu Dazai
- Language of Book: English
- Category of Book: Novels, Contemporary Fiction, Classic Books and Novels
- Total Pages: 175 Pages
- Size: 13.1 Mo
- Edition: New world Library
- TYPE: PDF, ebook
- ISBN: 1-57731-046-2
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