Book cover, mostly white with large all caps text that reads "No Longer Human" in bottom left. Center features a circular cut out showing an illustration of distorted skulls.
Page excerpt, black and white illustration of two distorted decaying faces framed by many abstract flowers and plants.
Page excerpt, featuring 4 panel illustrations of a crowd looking at a floating body with accompanying story text.
Book cover, mostly white with large all caps text that reads "No Longer Human" in bottom left. Center features a circular cut out showing an illustration of distorted skulls.
Page excerpt, black and white illustration of two distorted decaying faces framed by many abstract flowers and plants.
Page excerpt, featuring 4 panel illustrations of a crowd looking at a floating body with accompanying story text.

Junji Ito - No Longer Human

$ 34.99

Hardcover, 616 pages, 8.25 x 5.75 inches.

Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.

Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.