• No Longer Human (1948) – His masterpiece. A semi-autobiographical novel told through journals of a man who feels he has “disqualified himself from being human.” Raw, unsettling, and devastatingly honest.
• Schoolgirl (1939) – A deceptively simple, brilliant monologue of a young woman’s interior life. Proof that Dazai could capture innocence with the same ferocity as despair. Osamu Dazai Author
The Price of Being Human: Revisiting Osamu Dazai, 78 Years Later • No Longer Human (1948) – His masterpiece