Later, she loaded five bullets in a pistol and fired three rounds.Ī police officer said that of the three bullets, one was shot at a mirror, on which she had scribbled ‘disqualified human’ for herself and the other two were shot at the mother-son duo. She took a bath and then wrote ‘I am a disqualified human’ with tomato sauce on the bathroom mirror. Loaded 5 bullets, used 3: Girl tells policeĭuring the interrogation, the juvenile said that her mother and brother went to sleep after having lunch on Saturday. The novel has come to echo the sentiments of youth (Hiroshi Ando, The Mainichi Daily News ) from post-war Japan to the postmodern society of technology. The counsellor also stated that the girl used to identify with the characters in the Japanese author’s novel and reacted similarly. Semi-autobiographical, No Longer Human is the final completed work of one of Japan’s most important writers, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948). This is an excerpt from the book,” a report by The Times of India quoted the police officer as saying. In her notebook, she has scribbled ‘to fail to be human, to be disqualified as human being’. “A character in Dazai’s novel called Oba Yozo tries to adapt, cope and fit in but fails to become a human.
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