No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (translator) The news of Kweku’s death

The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world

an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself

brings his wife to the brink of madness

again and again

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (translator) The news of Kweku’s death*Used like new Published by New Directions 2001 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. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he