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  2. No Longer Human - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of philosophical fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. No Longer Human (musical) - Wikipedia

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    No Longer Human is a 2021 musical theatre adaptation of Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai's 1948 novel No Longer Human, by American composer Frank Wildhorn with English lyrics by Tracy Miller and Carly Robyn Green, and Chinese lyrics by Ya Wen and Mingzhu Zheng. [1]

  5. 1948 in literature - Wikipedia

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    Rev. W. Awdry – James the Red Engine (third in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry) Hans Fischer – Pitschi. Das Kätzchen, das immer etwas anderes wollte. Eine traurige Geschichte, die aber gut aufhört; Antonia Forest – Autumn Term (first in the Marlow series of ten books) Ruth Stiles Gannett – My Father ...

  6. Transhumanism in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The more pessimistic scenarios include many dystopian tales of human bioengineering gone wrong. Examples of "transhumanist fiction" include novels by Linda Nagata, Greg Egan, and Hannu Rajaniemi. Transhuman novels are often philosophical in nature, exploring the impact such technologies might have on human life.

  7. Hero's journey - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the hero's journey. In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's quest or hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed.

  8. No Longer Human (Ito manga) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Donald Keene - Wikipedia

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    Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. [1] [2] Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years.