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No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.
A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) and No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern-day classics. [2] His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His last book, No Longer Human, is his most popular work outside of Japan.
No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito; it is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Osamu Dazai. It was serialized in Big Comic Original from May 2017 to April 2018 and published in three volumes.
No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai (episode 1–4): The path of a man with intense feelings of alienation towards society and the feeling of "humanity".; In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom, by Ango Sakaguchi (episode 5–6): A forest bandit finds a beautiful maiden in the forest and takes her to be his wife, but she is more than she seems to be.
Junji Ito (Japanese: 伊藤 潤二, Hepburn: Itō Junji, born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist.Some of his most notable works include Tomie, a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness; Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town cursed by spirals; and Gyo, a two-volume story in which fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria ...
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories; James Gould Cozzens – Guard of Honor; Edmund Crispin. Buried for Pleasure; Love Lies Bleeding; A. J. Cronin – Shannon's Way; Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human; L. Sprague de Camp – Divide and Rule; L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – The Carnelian Cube; August Derleth – Not Long for ...
No Longer Human; Lima, José Lezama: 1910-1976 Paradiso - Latin American Boom novel that explores desire in pre-revolution Cuba. Camus, Albert: 1913-1960 Absurdism: Ellison, Ralph: 1913-1994 Invisible Man-Existentialism in America. Schmidt, Arno: 1914–1979 Percy, Walker: 1916-1990 The Moviegoer-An existential novel outlining Søren ...
Human decline Le Dernier Homme: Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville: Regarded as the first story of modern speculative fiction to depict the end of the world [2] Poem 1816 Sun "Darkness" Lord Byron Describes the end of life on Earth after the Sun's extinction Novel 1826 Disease The Last Man [3] Mary Shelley: Novel 1872 Technology "The Book of ...