No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai Fantasy Fiction would rather play hooky than

would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend

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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai Fantasy Fiction would rather play hooky thanOsamu 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,