The Beggar Student (乞食学生) – Osamu Dazai | A Man Excused from Living
So begins the madcap adventure of The Beggar Student, where there is glamor in destitution and glimmerings of truth in intellectual one-upmanship.
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The Flowers of Buffoonery (道化の華) – Osamu Dazai | Fresh and Darkly Humorous
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba – the narrator of No Longer Human – is convalescing after a failed suicide attempt.
No Longer Human (人間失格) – Osamu Dazai | Individual’s alienation from society
No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings.