No longer human
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New Directions Publishing Corporation,
New York :
1973.
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"Tells the poignant and fascinating semi-autobiographical 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. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a 'clown' to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness."--Publisher
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- ISBN: 9780811204811
- ISBN: 0811204812
- Physical Description: 177 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1973.
- Copyright: ©1958
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General Note:
Translation of: Ningen shikkaku.Novel."First published clothbound by New Directions in 1958. First published as New Directions Paperbook 357 in 1973"--t.p. verso.
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