Description
A young man moves through ordinary days while feeling profoundly unable to understand what it means to be human, caught between the unraveling of inherited traditions and the unsettling pull of Western modernity. Told with stark honesty and unsettling self-awareness, his story traces a lifelong attempt to “fit in”—from childhood confusion to high-school performance and the desperate coping masks he adopts—until his inner fracture can no longer be contained. Without sentimentality, the narrative observes the casual cruelties of everyday life and the brief, fragile tenderness that sometimes breaks through isolation. Themes of alienation, identity, and the cost of social conformity drive this enduring modern classic, rendered in Osamu Dazai’s incisive, confessional style that blends psychological candor with literary restraint.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Jan 1, 1973
196 pages
ISBN: 9780811220071
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Details
First Published
1948
Language
eng
Translation
From: jpn
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.