Back لم يعد بشرا Arabic Yarımçıq insanın etirafları Azerbaijani Провалът на човека Bulgarian Gezeichnet (Dazai Osamu) German Indigno de ser humano Spanish زوال بشری Persian La Déchéance d'un homme French Թերի մարդու խոստովանությունը Armenian Gagal Menjadi Manusia ID Lo squalificato Italian
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| Author | Osamu Dazai |
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| Original title | 人間失格 |
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| Language | Japanese |
| Publisher | Chikuma Shobō |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Publication place | Japan |
Published in English | 1958 |
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| 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 1948 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 38.[2] No Longer Human is considered a classic of postwar Japanese literature[3] and Dazai's masterpiece.[4] It enjoys considerable popularity among younger readers[5] and ranks as the second best-selling novel by publishing house Shinchōsha, behind Sōseki Natsume's Kokoro.[5]
- ^ Dazai, Osamu (1948). No Longer Human. Translated by Keene, Donald. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Publishing.
- ^ a b Dazai, Osamu (2023). A Shameful Life. Translated by Gibeau, Mark. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press.
- ^ The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. p. 660.
- ^ "Takeshi Obata Illustrates Cover for Best-Selling Japanese Novel". ComiPress. August 22, 2007. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
- ^ a b "没後７０年、作家・太宰治を生んだ「三つの空白期」". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 6 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2023.