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No Longer Human

byOsamu Dazai, Junji Ito

Who is this book for? Readers interested in psychological drama and themes of alienation.

Topics Family traditionsIdentity crisisCultural clashExistentialismAlienationPsychological strugglesSocial normsAristocratic societyEastern-western influencesHuman conditionIdentitySocial Life and Customs
MoodMelancholic, Reflective
ViolenceMild
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
Nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. 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.

Language

en

Published on

01/09/2020

Pages

616

Format

hardcover

ISBN

9781974707096

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