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No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
A man performs the version of himself other people expect while feeling unable to understand them.
- 1948
The story, briefly
Spoiler-freeOsamu Dazai’s 1948 novel follows a narrator who hides his alienation behind jokes, drinking, sex, and a carefully performed public self.
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A life performed for other people
Dazai writes alienation in clear, unsentimental prose and shows the fear beneath a carefully performed social self.
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