No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (translator) and the landscape he traverses

and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel

The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world

married love

brings his wife to the brink of madness

A powerful debut novel

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (translator) and the landscape he traverses*Used like new Published by New Directions 2001 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. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he