About the Author

Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was a 20th century Japanese novelist.

Reviews

"Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment."
*Andrew Martin - The New York Times*

"Seventy-five years later, No Longer Human still reads with an apt urgency. As the musician Patti Smith once put it, Dazai 'wrote at the pace of a dying man, yearning for ... the solution to an unresolved equation.'"
*Jane Yong Kim - The Atlantic*

"No Longer Human is his masterpiece, though all his work is worthy. Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe. "
*Patti Smith*

"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide."
*Yukio Mishima*

"From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant."
*Yasunari Kawabata*