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" and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages

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" His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud

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No Longer Human history " and artists who don’tOsamu 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,