No Longer Human
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4.8 • 202 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Mine has been a life of much shame.
I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.
Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.
Customer Reviews
An Excellent Adaptation
I read this expecting a beautifully illustrated version of No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. What I got was Junji Ito making this book as if he had written the story. It is far less grounded and mundane than the original, and while that it is part of the charm of the original, I think the liberties Ito takes ended up making for an incredibly compelling tale in its own right. Ito also has the hindsight of the original author’s suicide and as dark as that sounds, he uses that information very effectively in his own telling.
Goated illustration
Story varies a bit from original, but artwork is phenomenal
Tragic
A story I feel all too familiar with. This has been one of the best reads of my life. Yet one of the most tragic. Beautifully portrayed to show what the ugly in this world can do to a person.