In the canon
No Longer Human
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1948
- Originally in
- Originally in Japanese
- Pages
- Pages 180
"Mine has been a life of much shame." So opens the first of three notebooks left behind by Yozo Oba, and the confession turns strange and tender: a boy who cannot fathom what other people want, and so decides to make them laugh. He tumbles from the horizontal bar on purpose, pulls faces, plays the clown so flawlessly that nobody sees the terror underneath, and the act becomes the only self he has.
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.
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