No Longer Human
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Mine has been a life of much shame.
I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.
Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.
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Ha sido, facil, de las cosas mas pesadas que he leído. Todo el último tercio con un nudo en la garganta por las desgracias de Yozo (y de Dazai, tomando las libertades de qué es ficción y qué no) que muchas veces fueron su propio hacer. El final agridulce entre la muerte del propio autor (Osamu Dazai se suicidaría con una viuda en el canal de un rio) o la de Yozo, donde esta muerto en vida, indigno de llamarse siquiera un ser humano. "En mi vida ya no hay felicidad ni sufrimiento. Simplemente todo pasa." Nota mental: ahora hay que leer algo bien pero bien wholesome. Holy shit.
Characteristics
1 reviews
Mood
Protagonist(s)
Pace
Writing Style
Description
Mine has been a life of much shame.
I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.
Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.
Book Information
Posts
Ha sido, facil, de las cosas mas pesadas que he leído. Todo el último tercio con un nudo en la garganta por las desgracias de Yozo (y de Dazai, tomando las libertades de qué es ficción y qué no) que muchas veces fueron su propio hacer. El final agridulce entre la muerte del propio autor (Osamu Dazai se suicidaría con una viuda en el canal de un rio) o la de Yozo, donde esta muerto en vida, indigno de llamarse siquiera un ser humano. "En mi vida ya no hay felicidad ni sufrimiento. Simplemente todo pasa." Nota mental: ahora hay que leer algo bien pero bien wholesome. Holy shit.