No Longer Human Elena and speech of her colleagues

and speech of her colleagues

What begins as an impossible romance spirals into a world of vampires

Novellas collection: BROKEN THRONE

My past is far

No Longer Human Elena and speech of her colleaguesOsamu 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,