No Longer Human Author: [Japanese] Dazai Osamu Translator: Yang Wei Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House

To be disqualified from being human means to lose the qualifications to be a human being.

No Longer Human includes 11 representative works of Dazai Osamu, including Goodbye, the author's last work, and other rare versions of Standard Bearer of the 20th Century, Villon's Wife, Lantern, Wish Fulfillment, Handsome Man and Cigarette, Skin and Heart, Cricket, Cherry, etc., as well as a special appendix of Dazai Osamu's chronology and a suicide note written by Dazai Osamu to his wife. Dazai Osamu skillfully hides his life and thoughts in his works, and the decadence revealed in the delicate works gives us a clear and three-dimensional glimpse of the face of a "rogue" master.

Dazai Osamu (1909-1948)

His real name is Tsushima Shuji (つしましゅうじ).

Japanese novelist.

A representative figure of Japanese rogue literature.

Born into a wealthy family in Tsugaru County, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

At the age of 14, he and his friends started to publish fanzines and literary works.

In 1930, he entered the French Department of the University of Tokyo, but dropped out midway.

He began writing under the pen name Dazai Osamu in 1933. In 1935, his short story "Reverse" was selected for the first Akutagawa Prize candidate list, and in 1939 he won the fourth Kitamura Toruya Prize for "Female Student".

He attempted suicide five times in his life, and finally committed suicide by drowning at Tamagawa Josui with his lover Yamazaki Tomie in 1948 at the age of 39.