No Longer Human: The Annotated Edition

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The first annotated English-language edition of Osamu Dazai's masterpiece. Ōba Yōzō learns to live among human beings by making them laugh. If they are laughing, they're not really looking, and cannot see what he really is, or isn't. His confession arrives as a set of notebooks, through which he traces the arc of a life spent in disguise: the clowning, the drinking, the seduction, the double suicide that kills the wrong person, the morphine, and the asylum where the mask comes off, leaving nothing recognizable underneath. Written in 1948, weeks before Dazai drowned himself in a Tokyo canal, No Longer Human remains one of the bestselling novels in Japanese publishing history.Why this edition No Longer Human has been available in English since 1958, but it has never been critically annotated. Western readers encounter Yōzō's story without the context that Japanese readers take for granted: the rigid family system that governed his household, the political suppression that made attending a meeting a criminal act, the literary tradition that gave double suicide its terrible weight, and the codes of shame and obligation that shaped every relationship in his world. This Time Warp Edition changes all that. A new translation from the original Japanese is accompanied by section-by-section endnotes, written not for scholars but for curious readers who believe a great book deserves to be fully understood. Also includes: Editor's introduction, Special essay on Higanbana: the Red Spider Lily, Chronology of key dates, Glossary of Japanese terms, Curated further reading

商品の重量:	340 g
寸法:	13.97 x 1.37 x 21.59 cm
ISBN-13:	978-1967573127
ISBN-10:	1967573123
発売日:	2026/4/12
言語:	英語