No Longer HumanTai Zai Zhi, Juliet Winters Carpenter
No Longer Human
by Tai Zai Zhi, Juliet Winters Carpenter · first published 2024
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Why HN recommends it
Short, bleak novel by Osamu Dazai about an alienated protagonist. Its inner voice is intimate and personal, and it is well suited to readers who enjoy Japanese literature.
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Two Japanese novels that I thoroughly enjoyed are Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi and Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human.
on “Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories” ↗You can write, though, so there's that. If you're into reading, I can recommend "No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai. It won't cheer you up or anything but you might identify with the protagonist. As long as you're doing better than him, you're doing alright. Hang in there, baby.
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