No Longer Human cover art

No Longer Human

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

No Longer Human

By: Osamu Dazai
Narrated by: David Shih
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £11.58

Buy Now for £11.58

About this listen

"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 Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.

Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, NO LONGER HUMAN is an important and unforgettable modern classic.

©1958 New Directions Publishing Corp. (P)2016 Tantor Media, Inc. Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

Critic reviews

“The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing.” (The Japan Times)
All stars
Most relevant
Very touching and human, some of the most honest writing i’ve had the pleasure of listening to on Audible.

A Classic

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The sad, tragic, raw, yet human story of one of those unique and odd persons who inhabit our world. Self inflicted, but somehow still the victims of the harsh world and the people in it. A very different culture and world from the one I or anyone inhabit today, but it is real, and I understand why it’s a classic.
I love how the style reminds me of Dostoevsky, and the main character of the book mentions the author as well. Somehow the author must have found inspiration or kinship in the writings of Dostoevsky.
The tragic life of the author undoubtedly has an impact the books hr wrote would have on the world he left.

The story of those odd people we all have met.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A great warning of what happens if you don’t take accountability and go passively through life

A warning

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Worthy to be spoken of alongside the other existential masterworks by Kafka, Camus and Sartre. Here the deep questioning of life goes on hidden from the world by a protective mask of comic activity. A tragic story of collapse and inability to cope with the world.

Haunting Self portrait

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
una historia de osamu que nos conmueve hasta lo más profundo, bella y sumamente humana, con una narración espectacular..

intrigante, bella, humana

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews