Analysis of

Analysis of Dazai, Osamu. Ningen Shikkaku, No Longer Human (1948). The narrator "I" tells that he came to have confession notes written by a man named Yozo and his photos, whom he has never met.Ê Yozo writes that, since his childhood, people around him, even his parents and brothers, were totally inscrutable to him.Ê He never dared to understand them, but escaped communication by acting like a clown, making people laugh.Ê Thus he came to fear …

…of guilt in the form of a confession, as in Mishima's Confession, then Dazai's crisis is of the creature who is not even worth confessing guilt or expressing identity crisis.Ê In Dazai's words, he is not simply guilty but insane and nonhuman.Ê It seems to me that the protagonist is not even worth representing himself in words, and thus needs the innocent third person narrator who kindly represents the nonhuman creature for Yozo and Dazai.