![]() ![]() “Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.” If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. Moreover, he’s a mix between an outcast and a jester: “I thought, “As long as can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be all right. He’s a lonely and sickly child and he struggles to understand the world he lives in and he is constantly upset when he finds out that purpose of things around him has been a practical one. And I guess with losing touch with what makes us feel like humans.įirst part or notebook describes character’s childhood. He is a troubled man and notebooks describe his depressed journey through life. Well, this is fiction and no one is turning into robots and in some way it’s worse… No Longer Human is a story told in form of notebooks left by one Ōba Yōzō. ![]() ![]() When I first picked up the book, I half expected a nonfiction piece on how we are turning into robots. No Longer Human is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai, first published in 1948. ![]()
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