No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high

No Longer Human Complete Edition - Usamaru Furuya

No Longer Human, the searing semi-autobiographical novel by Osamu Dazai, Japan’s Dostoevsky, trades its original prewar setting for the brave new world of the aught years in this adaptation by the enfant terrible of manga. This unique omnibus, previously available in three installments, features

No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

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. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings

The Flowers of Buffoonery - Osamu Dazai

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Oba-the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age-is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this

Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu (Dazai Osamu)(Paperback)

A glimpse into the humorous, sardonic world of Dazai Osamu, presenting a new and very different look at a one of the recognized masters of Japanese, and indeed global, literature. These works from the middle years of his brief career show a skilled hand, with angst muted and his penchant for subtle

Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu (Dazai Osamu)(Paperback)

Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to

The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai

Ningen Shikkaku (Dazai Osamu)(Paperback)

Zapadající slunce - Osamu Dazai

Early Light - Osamu Dazai

Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to

The Girl Who Became a Fish - Osamu Dazai

Another spectacular collaboration from the Maiden's Bookshelf series, this dark and intense fable by the great giant of postward literature is brought to vivid life by contemporary master Nekosuke. Suwa, a charcoal burner's daughter, lives together with her father in a small village at a foot of a

Odepsaný - Osamu Dazai

Józó, hlavní hrdina románu Odepsaný, vypráví o svém na první pohled běžném a víceméně normálním životě, přestože se sám cítí neschopen porozumět lidským bytostem. Pokusy o smíření se s okolním světem začínají v raném dětství, pokračují na střední škole, kde

The Setting Sun (Dazai Osamu)(Paperback)

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made people of the setting sun a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his

Odepsaný / Zapadající slunce (box) - Osamu Dazai

Odepsaný Józó, hlavní hrdina románu Odepsaný, vypráví o svém na první pohled běžném a víceméně normálním životě, přestože se sám cítí neschopen porozumět lidským bytostem. Pokusy o smíření se s okolním světem začínají v raném dětství, pokračují na střední

A Shameful Life: (Ningen Shikkaku) (Dazai Osamu)(Paperback)

A new translation of one of the greatest works of postwar Japanese literature, acutely capturing modern anxiety and

No Longer Human - Džundži Itó

Nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. 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,

Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences (Riessman Catherine Kohler)(Paperback)

The research literature on narrative has grown exponentially over the last 20 years. No longer the province only of literary study, the 'narrative turn' has penetrated almost every human science: anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, and others. However, although insights about individual

Grizzly Boy (Davis-Pyles Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

One morning Theo decides he is no longer human. 'I'm a GRIZZLY! I'm WILD AND FREE!' But being a grizzly boy isn't easy if you still have to go to school. A fun, endearing, and sweet picture book, Grizzly Boy will have 'wild and free' little grizzlies everywhere asking for repeat readings. One day

High Value Fermentation Products, Volume 1: Human Health (Saran Saurabh)(Pevná vazba)

Green technologies are no longer the 'future' of science, but the present. With more and more mature industries, such as the process industries, making large strides seemingly every single day, and more consumers demanding products created from green technologies, it is essential for any business

The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences (Storm Jason Ananda Josephson)(Paperback)

A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have

The Book of Human Insects (Tezuka Osamu)(Paperback)

Toshiko Tomura is a genius; the darling of the intelligentsia. A modern-day Michelangelo, this twenty year-old is already an established international stage actress, an up-and-coming architect, and the next recipient of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize as Japan's best new writer. Her actions make

Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda's Leader (Bergen Peter L.)(Paperback)

No one knows more about Osama bin Laden than Peter Bergen. In 1997, well before the West suddenly became aware of the world's most sought-after terrorist, Bergen met with him and has followed his activities ever since. Today, years after President Bush swore to get him dead or alive and despite

Be Reverent: Bowing Before Our Awesome God: OT Commentary: Ezekiel (Wiersbe Warren W.)(Paperback)

As good as dead. That's how Albert Einstein described people who can no longer wonder and no longer feel amazement. A sense of wonder and reverence is basic to life and to

No Longer Nave: African Football's Growing Impact at the World Cup (Mustapha Ibrahim)(Paperback)

No Longer Nave is an in-depth look at the history of African soccer at the game's greatest showcase event. As soccer grew globally over the 20th century and the World Cup became the zenith of the sport internationally, Africa was left trailing, both through a lack of organization and exclusion by