"No Longer Human" ist ein Roman des japanischen Autors Osamu Dazai, der von Donald Keene ins Englische übersetzt wurde. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte von Ōba Yōzō, einem jungen Mann, der sich zunehmend unfähig fühlt, sich in die...

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting...

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an...

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...