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No Longer Human
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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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Bookworm04
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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2 books done so far for September nice. #bookspinbingo somebody pick a number off that card for me :) pretty plz 🥰

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Bookworm04
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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New book day with new bookmark on that got from Waterstones. Sit in sun in garden and read with a wine 🍷. Hubby firing up bbq after to yay.

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nikekay
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Finished reading on 15 April 2023.

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Cortg
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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“I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of water.” Some say this story is Dazai‘s suicide note. It‘s a sad and dark and painful story of Oba Yazo who has never had a connection to anyone around him. I wanted to read this before reading Junji Ito‘s graphic novel version. #Booked2023 ~by an author no longer living

Cinfhen Sounds sad 😔 13mo
Cortg @cinfhen It was! A colleague saw it on my desk and asked why I was reading it with spring around the corner. “It's a sad winter book,“ she said. 13mo
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bianka
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‘ i find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can live, purely, happily, serenely while engaged in deceit.‘ 5*/5 the book i‘ll surely come back to and read once again. masterpiece.

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AbstractMonica
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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I can‘t say I enjoyed this one. It reminded me of Women by Charles Bukowski, but not as crass and vulgar. Oba Yozo struggles his entire life with not having any purpose or drive. He never makes positive relationships within his family or peers. The story follows his relationships with women and his addiction to alcohol and heroin. It was a depressing account. It was melancholy from start to finish. I would have bailed if it was any longer.

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AbstractMonica
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Next up.

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roronoazoro
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Beautiful book, very depressing but as someone who has struggled with mental illness reading this book gave me a sense of comfort, reading someone describing things I felt made me feel so valid and I kept thinking “so I‘m not alone”.
The way he treated women was a massive NO from me, but I‘m glad at the end the people who knew him finally did something to help.

Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4639740809

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luvv_maria
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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I‘m on like the second chapter its really long but its very interesting so far, and has a lot of detail lately, Oba Yozo been talking about this one guy named Takeichi who has been his friend for a long time and they talk about painting ghosts and they rate each others drawings and now Yozo is looking back on it and he realizes the meaning to the ghosts and everything.

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luvv_maria
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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I‘m only on the first chapter of this book so far it‘s great I kinda confusing but he talks a lot about how people are terrible and how they are menaces to society and his gloomy kitchen idk it‘s all messed up so far

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LostInSpace
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Weird, intriguing, misogynistic in places, definately relatable as someone who struggles with other humans.

Cathythoughts Sounds good 👍🏻❤️ 3y
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doodeh
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Second Japanese title this year. I feel like this one will hit like a train but stories with people who real...flawed and lost..just call to me.
#summerishere #Japanesefiction #stuckinlimbo

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Bertha_Mason
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai

Junji Ito's adaptation is both much richer in concrete events and much more sexually explicit. It makes me wonder whether the translation I'm reading for the novel is bowdlerized. Because, like, I've never known Junji Ito to write many sex scenes in general.

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Bertha_Mason
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai

"The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness."

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Bertha_Mason
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai

I can't wait to see Junji Ito's take on this book, especially given how little explicit body horror there is so far.

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rakeshpm
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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https://myliteraryramblings.in/the-books-of-disquiet/
My reviews about Journey to the end of the night and no longer human

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SkeletonKey
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Been listening to this one at work but it‘s tough to get around the misogyny. I end up scowling a lot. Translated from Japanese, a wealthy and disgruntled young man struggles with...um, everything.

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sam.a.nam
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No Longer Human is a complex narrative built on the subtitles of human interaction. Dazai deconstructions the notions of society, love and crime to explore the variation of truth in a rapidly changing world.

This book made me absolutely disgusted with the main character, as Dazai horrifically captures his inevitable downfall; yet by the end, repulsion is fleeting and I‘m left to wonder how much I can ever truly know about another human being.

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sam.a.nam
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Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.

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sam.a.nam
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai

The incomprehensibility of society is it incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is individuals.

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rkeo
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The synopsis of this book calls it poignant, and I can't think of a better adjective. The entire story evokes a deep sense of despair. His social anxiety and self-doubt were present from early childhood, and it's made clear how deeply internalized his depression and alienation became. The narrative did an excellent job highlighting the torment that comes with putting on a happy facade that's at odds with how you feel inside.

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nikirtehsuxlol
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer of him.

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nikirtehsuxlol
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Here‘s another cover variant 👋

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nikirtehsuxlol
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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“I think even a death mask would hold more of an expression, leave more of a memory. That effigy suggest nothing so much as a human body to which a horse‘s head has been attached. I have never seen such an inscrutable face on a man.”

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thetelltaleheart
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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I really enjoyed this book, one of my 2017 Highlights and Dazai is a very good discovery so far :) since a few months I'm absolutely into japanese literature.

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LauraJ
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No Longer Human is presented as the diaries of Yozo, a 20-something man, who is in serious need of cognitive behavioral therapy. He feels disconnected from society and is only able to function with the help of women and gin. If you're in the mood for bleakness, pick up this Japanese classic. #LitsyAtoZ #LitsyReadingChallenge #ReadHarder

Tanzy13 🐱 7y
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LauraJ
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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The only way to get out of this recliner involves lowering the footrest.
If I lower the footrest, the kitty goes boom.
I've tried waking him up without any luck.
Hmm ⁉️#catsoflitsy

Sweettartlaura 😂😂😹 7y
DreesReads You must continue to read! 7y
Joybishoptx He knew that when he chose that precise location. Kitties always have a plan. 7y
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Dragon Have someone shake a treat container. 7y
bookdrunkard78 I currently have the same dilemma! 🐱🐱 7y
Desha Such cute kitties! I know...it's anathema to move our babies while they sleep! 😍🐾🐾❤️ 7y
Bette You're reading No Longer Human...you are now in cat world...you must live to serve. 😂😂😂 7y
RadicalReader @LauraJ such a conflicting situation when animals know where to be and simply can't resist curling up 7y
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LauraJ
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Went shopping for #Cupidgoespostal and found nothing but leftover Xmas crap. ? Being perpetually single, this wouldn't normally bother me. Maybe my Litsy valentine likes broken candy canes???
Anyway, I needed a "D" author for #LitsyAtoZ, so here one be! (Sorry. Too much cold medicine ?)

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Adventures-of-a-French-Reader
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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Here are some of my #silhouettesoncovers 😍😍😍
#seasonsreadings2016 #tbr

RealLifeReading No Longer Human sounds interesting! 7y
Adventures-of-a-French-Reader @RealLifeReading Yes ;) I'll be reading it for the #192019challenge 😀 It was first published in 1948. 7y
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Adventures-of-a-French-Reader
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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#bookmail
Look what Mr. Postman brought me today!!! Thanks for brightening my day ;)

Faibka Oh I hope you enjoy No longer Human, it's a bit of a depressing read but really good! Looking forward to your thoughts on it 7y
Adventures-of-a-French-Reader @Faibka I don't know when I'll read it, but of course, when I'll read it we could talk about it ;) 7y
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asoftskeleton
No Longer Human | Osamu Dazai
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My immediate response after finishing: Dazai, you morose fuck. Which really is all you need to know.

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asoftskeleton
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Painters who have had this mentality, after repeated wounds and intimidations at the hands of apparitions called human beings, have often come to believe in phantoms -- they plainly saw monsters in broad daylight, in the midst of nature.