![]() ![]() Yozo sees deception and threat everywhere, early in the novel stating that “henever anyone criticized me I felt certain that I had been living under the most dreadful misapprehension. ![]() There is some commonality here with one of Dazai’s previous novels, The Setting Sun (1956), whose protagonist, Kazuko, and her brother, Naoki, are utterly beset by their own emotions, bent under the weight of their own anxieties, fears, and feelings of embarrassment. Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human (1958) centres upon Yozo Oba and his feeling of alienation from the world around him (his name does not appear often in Dazai’s text, so as he is predominantly referred to as Yozo in Ito’s version, I will be referring to him as such throughout this piece). ![]()
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