Disqualified from the World
About This Novel
To be disqualified in the human world is to lose the qualifications to be a human being. This is the last work in the life of Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, and it is also his most important work. The book is composed of the author's preface, postscript, and three letters written by the protagonist Oba Yezang. It describes the protagonist's continuous sinking from adolescence to middle age in order to escape reality. He experienced self-exile, alcoholism, suicide, and numbing himself with drugs, and finally walked towards himself step by step. The tragedy of destruction, in the process of self-denial, expresses the deep depression in his heart and the desire to be loved... He was tortured by the most real pain of being a human being. He spent his whole life seeking love and avoiding love under self-weariness, and in the end he could only destroy himself. This edition also selects several other masterpieces by Osamu Dazai: "The Setting Sun", "The Schoolgirl" and "Cherry".
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"I" have been in poor health since I was a child and am often sick, so I spend most of my time in bed. When lying on the bed, "I" think these beddings are the most boring decoration. But it was only when I was in my twenties that I realized how practical these things were.
"I" was born in the northeastern countryside, and I am not considered well-informed. The first time I saw a train was when I was a little older. At that time, "I" climbed up and down the overpass, thinking that it was just to make the train station as interesting as a foreign amusement park. Climbing up and down like this was very special.
When "I" was a child, I saw the subway in a picture book. "I" always thought that it was designed and built because the fun of riding a car underground is much higher than that on the ground. I never thought that it was built for actual needs.
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Official(4)Scraped 3d ago
Can't see it? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
"I" have been in poor health since I was a child and am often sick, so I spend most of my time in bed. When lying on the bed, "I" think these beddings are the most boring decoration. But it was only when I was in my twenties that I realized how practical these things were.
"I" was born in the northeastern countryside, and I am not considered well-informed. The first time I saw a train was when I was a little older. At that time, "I" climbed up and down the overpass, thinking that it was just to make the train station as interesting as a foreign amusement park. Climbing up and down like this was very special.
When "I" was a child, I saw the subway in a picture book. "I" always thought that it was designed and built because the fun of riding a car underground is much higher than that on the ground. I never thought that it was built for actual needs.
