Ningen Shikkaku - Osamu Dazai • BookLikes (ISBN:4903620506)

Ningen Shikkaku

by: Osamu Dazai (author)

ISBN: 9784903620503 (4903620506)

Publish date: 2009

Publisher: Esudīpī

Pages no: 172

Edition language: Japanese

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Classics, Novels, Literature, Cultural, Asian Literature, Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature, Fiction

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I’ll start this off with some content warnings. This book includes several suicide attempts (one successful), a main (POV) character who becomes an alcoholic and a drug addict and who is probably depressed, and several mentions of rape and child molestation. Most of these things aren’t described in ...

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Despite its title, No Longer Human is really about the pain of being human (duh). It's about depression. Alienation. Life spiralling out of control. Okay, so Yozo, the protagonist, is afraid of humans. He doesn't understand why exactly people act like they do, but in order to fit in, he tries acti...

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touchstone of J-lit, 人間失格 is the "i'm going out of my mind" scream! of the flip-side of the Japanese-identity-exploration question of modernist Japanese writers. compared to the purveyor and surveyor of erotic obsession, Tanizaki; the 'tea ceremony and mountain geisha' specialist Kawabata; the milit...

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