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A brilliant student, he entered the french department of tokyo university in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree he had never attended a lecture. You can also read natsume soseki, akutagawa ryunosuke, shiga naoya, etc. Its interesting to note that the book the he wrote after this goodbye was nothing like no longer human. Jan 03, 2010 this is a website which uploads literature works with no reserved. Theres a moment of stillness, of caution and wonder, and then natsume sighs slowly. Osamu dazais no longer human comprises a series of three fictionalized notebooks, with each increasingly darker than the last.
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