No Longer Human Condition:Like New The characters here appear to

The characters here appear to be well-adjusted on the surface

Lauded by authorities

" --The New York Times

are back for an innocent night out at the opera

fiercely independent Quincie may be the most over-achieving high-school student around

No Longer Human Condition:Like New The characters here appear toOsamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title). Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun,