No Longer Human ruby press dem Zen und der Kabbala

dem Zen und der Kabbala

A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book

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No Longer Human ruby press dem Zen und der KabbalaOsamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title). Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun,