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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.Cover-painting-by-Noe-Nojechowiz,-from-the-collection-of-John-and-Barbara-Duncan;-design-by-Gertrude-Huston
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