![]() ![]() They decide to commit a double suicide by drowning themselves in the sea. Yozo gets involved with a married woman who also has a bleak outlook on life. ![]() Horiki would be a major influence on Yozo’s life, introducing him to alcohol, women, and general debauchery. He did go to one art class where he would meet Masao Horiki. More often than not, Yozo would skip his classes. This created a fear in Yozo’s mind so he deemed that the best way to deal with potential problems was to make Takeichi his friend so he wouldn’t be able to tell the other classmates that Yozo's hilarious antics were nothing more than a farce.Īlthough Yozo wanted to go to art school, his father sent him to a regular university. In high school Yozo befriends a classmate named Takeichi who saw through his antics. In order to deal with his fears and insecurities, he refined the art of being a clown and making people laugh. He had “a mortal dread of human beings” but was “unable to renounce their society”. He is a man who has trouble expressing himself to others. The story is about a young man named Yozo Oba. Keene writes in his introduction that the literal translation of Ningen Shikkaku is “disqualified as a human being”. ![]() The book was translated into English in 1958. Keene is also the translator for No Longer Human, Dazai’s semi-autobiographical novel which was first published in Japanese with the title Ningen Shikaku in 1948. ![]()
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