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estranger0 's review for:
No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human is a book devoid of all emotions, nullifying all and any feeling, sticking only to its themes of loneliness, alienation, and misanthropy. This book, though I heavily appreciate its deep, raw, and disturbingly real display of how it feels to be alienated and outcasted by society, I've strained so far away from that feeling that I could not relate at all to the book or find anything that I could reconcile with. Yozo as a character is purposefully made to be unlikeable and vile, he is a walking husk living a nihilist life that has never felt any real human emotion. This is how I felt reading this book. It's so colorless and bland that I almost felt like I was in post-war Japan reading it. Well, that is the whole point of the book. Truly in its own realm, I've never read a book that felt as soulless as this... in a good way, not a critical way.