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No longer human / story & art by Junji Ito ; original novel by Osamu Dazai, based on English translation by Donald Keene ; translation & adaptation, Jocelyne Allen ; touch-up art & lettering, James Dashiell.
Van Pelt Library PN6790.J33 I85413 2019
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Itō, Junji, 1963- author, artist.
- Series:
- Viz signature
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Men--Japan--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Men.
- Anxiety--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Anxiety.
- Manners and customs.
- Japan--Social life and customs--20th century--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Psychological comics.
- Graphic novel adaptations.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Autobiographical comics.
- Graphic novels.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 615 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, LLC, [2019]
- Summary:
- "'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
- Notes:
- Translated from the Japanese.
- Translation of Ningen shikkaku vol. 1-3.
- Reads from right to left.
- "Original Japanese edition published by Shogakukan"--Colophon.
- Parental advisory: "Rated M for adults only. This volume contains mature themes and graphic depictions"--Colophon.
- "No longer human, by Osamu Dazai, translation by Donald Keene, copyright ©1958"--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 615).
- ISBN:
- 9781974707096
- 1974707091
- OCLC:
- 1127181955
- Publisher Number:
- 99983585088
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