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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
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. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, ...Show more
No Longer Human by Junji Ito; Osamu Dazai (Created by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: No Longer Human Ser.
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 wo ...Show more
Self-Portraits: Stories by Osamu Dazai
$26.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death-and the ...Show more
The Flowers of Buffoonery (Prequel: No Longer Human) by Osamu Dazai; Sam Bett (Translator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba--the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age--is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dis ...Show more
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
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Category: Classics
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society.
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