{"product_id":"no-longer-human","title":"No Longer Human","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"First published by New Directions in 1958 ... First published as New Directions Paperbook 357 in 1973\"--Title page verso.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide.--Yukio Mishima\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai's writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant.--Yasunari Kawabata\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eNo Longer Human\u003c\/em\u003e is his masterpiece, though all his work is worthy. Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe.--Patit Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment.--Andrew Martin \"The New York Times\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMine 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePortraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's \u003cem\u003eNo Longer Human\u003c\/em\u003e narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His 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. Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, \u003cem\u003eNo Longer Human\u003c\/em\u003e is an important and unforgettable modern classic: \"The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing.\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Japan Times\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eDazai, Osamu\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe author of the global bestseller \n\u003cem\u003eNo Longer Human\u003c\/em\u003e and \n\u003cem\u003eThe Setting Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, \n\u003cstrong\u003eOsamu Dazai\u003c\/strong\u003e (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct. \n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eKeene, Donald\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDonald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496056357142,"sku":"9780811232432","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780811232432.jpg?v=1783052043","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/no-longer-human","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}