Description
Product ID: | 9781974707096 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Junji Ito |
Title: | No Longer Human |
Authors: | Author: Junji Ito |
Page Count: | 616 |
Subjects: | Horror and supernatural fiction, Horror & ghost stories, Manga and East Asian style / tradition comic books, Classic European style / tradition comic books, Graphic novels: Manga, Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. Nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. Mine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc |
Publisher Name: | Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-01-09 |