人間失格
by 太宰 治
FictionNear and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)LiteratureMenComic books, strips
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Vivo uma vida repleta de vergonha. A vida humana é algo que não consigo entender.
About this book
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells 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. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title). Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world . . . suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, . . . but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.
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FictionNear and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)LiteratureMenComic books, stripsAnxiety
Setting
Japan
About the author
太宰 治
19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948
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