Vicky answers “i just finished reading and i didn't...”

kylie asked this question about No Longer Human:

i just finished reading and i didn't really understand the final part, who is the person in the epilogue part? did he found yozo's notebooks and like told it as a story? i understand the rest of the book except for the prologue and epilogue.

Vicky The epilogue tells us 10 years after Yozo went to live far away from the city and everything that haunted him. All that you have read except the prolo…moreThe epilogue tells us 10 years after Yozo went to live far away from the city and everything that haunted him. All that you have read except the prologue and epilogue was written by Yozo and told you about his life by 3 notebooks. The epilogue and prologue is written by a periodist who is given this three notebooks and three pictures of Yozo through his life and tells us about him in a different point of view, a more rational one. I want to highlight specially a comment said by a female barist (the one who gave this journalist all the things left by Yozo) that said that he was an angel, but they didn't know anything about him because, we he had moved, had been in fire years ago and nothing about him was told. This remarks the point that nobody see Yozo as he was, everyone saw his mask.

The prologue and epilogue are not necessary to read, but it only gives us another point of view of him. Moreover, if you want to read another point of view fo him, you should read the left fragments of "Fiction Dazai" by Kazuo Dan (a close friend of Dazai who, with him, have tried to commit double suicide. He was devoted to dazai). He is a real secret and wrote a biography about him as soon as he had died. The book is so hidden that only fragments of it had been found. You should definetely read them if you are a huge fan of Dazai.(less)

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