The release date for the English version of 'No Longer Human' by
Osamu Dazai is Jan 1958. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
No Longer Human, the heartbreaking and interesting second book by renowned postwar Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, depicts the narrative of a young man stuck between the influence of Western ideals and the dissolution of his northern Japanese aristocratic family's traditions. Consequently, he perceives himself as "disqualified from being human" (the Japanese title translated literally).
Donald Keene, the translator of both this and Dazai's first book, The Setting Sun, has stated the following about the author's work: "His universe evokes memories of Chekhov or maybe even postwar France, but the material is chosen and presented with a Japanese sensibility. A Dazai novel differs greatly from any book published in the West while nevertheless being instantly understandable in Western terms." In many respects, his work is evocative of Rimbaud, and he has often been referred to as Yukio Mishima's precursor.
Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; Gertrude Huston designed the cover.