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No Longer Human
novel by Osamu Dazai
Cover of first edition | |
| Author | Osamu Dazai |
|---|---|
| Original&#;title | 人間失格 |
| Translator | |
| Language | Japanese |
| Publisher | Chikuma Shobō |
Publication date | |
| Publication place | Japan |
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| Media&#;type | |
| Preceded&#;by | A Cherry&#; |
| Followed&#;by | Goodbye&#; |
No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.
It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.
The original title translates as "Disqualified as a human being"[1] or "A failed human".[2] The book was published one month after Dazai's suicide at the age of [2]No Longer Human is considered a classic of postwar Japanese literatu