by Osamu Dazai
No longer human is one of the most famous novels in contemporary Japanese literature. It was published for the first time in 1948. Its controversial and brilliant author, Osamu Dazai, incorporated numerous episodes from his turbulent life into the three notebooks that make up this novel and that narrate, in the first person and realistically, the progressive decline of Yōzō, a Young student distressed and unable to reveal his true self to others, Disowned by his family after a suicide attempt and unable to understand human beings Yōzō Ōba as a cartoonist survives thanks to the help of women who fall in love with him despite his alcoholism and morphine addiction.
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"If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness." Osamu Dazai mirrors alienation derived empathy well in the book that can be considered his autobiography. My heart breaks for him, I wonder if anyone else cared enough to show him this compassion while he was alive. My heart breaks at my hypotheses.
