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>tfw dad bought me the wrong toy (the one i asked him to buy)

>>25117389
This book is so cruddy why do so many teenage weebs love it?

>>25117415
Is it that bad? I never bothered reading.

>>25117389
I honestly lose respect for anyone who cites No Longer Human as one of their favourite books. I write them off as self-obssessed essentially childlike or womanish souls and treat them accordingly

>>25117424
have you ever met such a person outside of this board? i doubt anyone i know, even well read people, have heard of it.

>>25117419
You’ll find better writing in clannad I can tell you that much.

>>25117419
It's not great. Gibeau's translation makes it a little more tolerable (A Shameful Life), but it relies too much on being earnest through confession and not through writing. The prose is dogshit and the protagonist's plight is never made convincing through any exploration of his thoughts; he just cannot take "this" anymore, despite nothing bad happening.

It may be significant owing to its popularity in Japan, but that's about where it ends. Mishima, Souseki, you'll have a better time with the others. At least it's a quick read.

>>25117456
No desu.... you dont understand
Ugh.... the portaganist, he's very rich you see.
On account if his family. He has a nice house, good connections, is able to persue a decent life as an artist, never has to worry about hunger or poverty... basically he has everything a man should wan to be happy... right???
Wrong! You see, while on the surface he seems happy, women won't stop sleeping with him and falling in love with him.
He goes to school, women throw themselves at him, he drops out, women through themselves at him, he gets a job, he's unemployed, no matter what happens, he never sufferes from poverty as a result of his actions and women never stop trying to jump on him. Its a fate he cannot escape from, no matter how many times he tries to kill himself or gets addicted to opium or takes a new lover.
AND HE'S SAD.
Its a very relatable book about the struggles of an artist.

>>25117492
Woah, he’s kinda like me except I get no women, and I’m poor.

>>25117437
I have an they are all invariably some flavor of japanophile

>>25117497
Exactly! People don't understand the lonliness that comes from lying in your nice bed in the house that your parents bought for you, in the arms of a married woman who left her husband to be with you. Its so lonely! You feel like you are no longer even a human!

I hate japanese "people"

>>25117438
This, I’m a bit of a weeb myself and I found this book to be quite dogshit. I’d sooner read something like clannad or whatever because it’s far more sincere.

>>25117539
They’re the most innately evil people

The Junji Ito manga adaptation is genuinely the better way to experience the book.

>>25117389
It's actually unbelievable how much this book filters people I don't even think the themes are particularly subtle and Dazai is a very effective author at communicating them.
Perhaps I am just more in touch with the japanese soul...

Fantastic novel and is certainly underrated because of how hard jap lit filters western piggus.

>>25117558
If you're a normalfag or a failed normalfag it seems to be incomprehensible, e.g. >>25117492