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“… i was still nothing more than an insolent, ghost, a ‘living corpse,' who had not even managed to die.
"osamu dazai, a prominent writer of the twentieth-century japanese literature, famous for his extraordinary life, tells the tragic story of a fellow who, just before his suicide, completed ""losing my humanity"", one of the most read novels in japan. this fellow, who failed to engage with society, messed everything up, doomed to disappoint everyone around him." In the novel, which has a lot of parallels with dazai's life, oba yozo, the son of an aristocratic family, who has considered himself a monument of failure since childhood, tries to exist in the “jester” role, which he plays both at home and at school.
in the souvenir of three parts of a confession, she takes the sin of her “shameful” life, which is full of alcoholism, geishas, suicide without consequences.
as we lose humanity, the final installment of osamu dazai's multi-year literary suicide letter.