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Itō, Junji, 1963- author, artist.

No longer human / story & art by Junji Ito ; original novel by Osamu Dazai ; based on English translation by Donald Keen ; translation and adaptation, Joecelyne Allen ; touch-up art & lettering, James Dashiell.

San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, [2019]

©2017

615 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

"'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.' Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm in arm with death. Osamu Dazai's immortal, and supposedly autobiographical work of Japanese literature is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche"-- Provided by publisher.

Rated M, for Mature.

Viz signature.

Men -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Anxiety -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Self-destructive behavior -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Man-woman relationships -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels -- Japan -- Translations into English.

Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels.

Graphic novel adaptations.

Psychological comics.

Graphic novelization of (work): Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948. Ningen shikkaku. English.

Keene, Donald, translator.

Allen, Jocelyne, 1974- translator, adapter.

Dashiell, James, illustrator, letterer.

Ningen Shikkaku. English

Translation of: Ningen shikkaku vol. 1-3.

This book reads right to left in the traditional Japanese format.

"Original Japanese edition published by Shogakukan"--Copyright page.

Parental advisory: "[R]ated M for adults only. This volume contains mature themes and graphic deptictions"--Copyright page.

"No longer human, by Osamu Dazai, translation by Donald Keene, copyright ©1958"--Copyright page.

Includes bibliographical references (page 615).

Translated from the Japanese.

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