Dazai portrays a horrifyingly realistic perspective into the mind of a man who struggles with alienation, depression, and addiction in search of a way to be human. This story depicts a lot of Dazai’s own life through the eyes of the main character, Oba Yozo, from the momentary bits of tenderness in his life to his failures with love.
No Longer Human was Dazai’s last complete work before he committed suicide in 1948. The semi-autobiographical story told by the late Japanese author Osamu Dazai, is written in three sections called notebooks – each one increasingly more grim than the last. When I first read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai in an attempt to branch out beyond American literature, I didn’t expect for it to impact me as much as it did.
The Japanese novel “No Longer Human”, published in 1948, tells a timeless, introspective story of mental illness. Trigger Warning: This book & review contains themes of depression, substance abuse, and mental illness.
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