01873cam a2200397 i 4500 1033449942 TxAuBib 20231104120000.0 221031t20221958||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022035451 9780811232432 hardcover 0811232433 hardcover TxAuBib rda eng jpn Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948,. Ningen shikkaku English. No Longer Human / by Osamu Dazai ; translated by Donald Keene. New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022. ©1958. 177 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A New Directions book.". "Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20231104. Social isolation Fiction. Alienation (Social psychology) Fiction. Suicidal behavior Fiction. JAPAN Social life and customs Fiction. Youth Japan Fiction. Psychological fiction. fast Novels. fast Keene, Donald,. Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948., [Norfolk, Conn.] : New Directions, [1958].