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    <body><![CDATA[i read this and automatically thought <em>the stranger</em> but while i hated <em>the stranger</em> i absolutely loved this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I consider this book to be the bible for the disaffected artist.  <em>No Longer Human</em> was the final novel written by Dazai Osamu.  It is also his magnum opus and a true-to-life representation of the restless and tormented spirit that Dazai was.  This work could be taken, at least to a certain extent, as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44485301">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very quick but sad read. It is the story of a man who feels increasingly disconnected from the world. He feels at first disconnected by the banality of his home life. Food is utilitarian, as are the bridges over train lines that had seemed so lovely, such a flourish, until he discovered th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24164436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>No Longer Human</em> is brutal, and about as accurate a portrait of the skewing effects the twin corrupters of narcissism and depression can have on a life. The narrator, based closely on Dazai's own life, is insufferable, not only to those around him but to himself and yet like a corrosive fog, he consu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51101707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My friend Stephan, now living in Portland, Ore after years in Japan teaching ESL, was recently here for a visit and recommended this book after reading a thing of mine with a similar theme. Its protagonist, Yozo, has felt fundamentally alienated from human society (everyone else) all his life, and d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41725700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit depressing for my taste, but I suppose that was the point.  The writing is excellent...really gets you into the mind of someone extremely detached from society.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is easily the most depressing book I've ever read. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just felt sorry for the author when I read this book...<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (1973)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 stars]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bet I'd feel much better if I read it in Japanese.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't suppose it's a good thing when <em>this</em> book makes you go 'that's me!', but especially the first half was uncomfortably recognizable. Not all the drugs and alcoholism and lewdness though, eeh basically all the perks. Still I ate it all up, Dazai's writing is so lovely. In my mind I have written ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17326989">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in Japanese so I don't know the quality of the English translation but in Japanese this book was steadily depressing. The main character is a hollow person who is removed from those around him since childhood and his 'lost-ness' increasingly affects those around him such as his wife and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18132843">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a lot of the power of dazai's prose gets lost in the translation, which definitely follows the Donald Keene Theory of Sacrificing Nuance for Elegance in Translation. (not that there's anything particularly <em>wrong</em> with that, when you're marketing the book for a general audience.)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know much about Dazai, but apparently he was the Japanese equivalent of Kerouac.  This book is stark and depraved but something very human lies inside of it.  The narrator is never &quot;no longer human,&quot; just very very broken to the point that he can't see outside of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not totally sure what to make of this book.  Sort of like Dorian Gray, with the portrait internalized.  Or maybe Crime and Punishment, except the Crime is imagined and the Punishment is self-loathing.  It was interesting, but ultimately sort of insubstantial.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tales of a Japanese anti-social descending into drink and vice.  Hints of the misanthropy of Sartre.  A completely self-loathing figure, I'd hoped for more unique &quot;meat&quot; to the story.  But a quick read and well written.  Certainly a downer for most.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a fictionalized story but apparently is at least quasi-autobiographical about Dazai's feelings of depression and alienation in prewar Japan.  It is definitely not a good book if you are looking for something uplifting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[never read it in english, so i don't know if it could be as good. it's amazing. one of the most emotionally, existentially, and philosophically intense novels i've ever read.]]></body>
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