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Reading Osamu Daizai's "Disqualified from being Human" one gains an oppressive sense of responsibilities and meaning associated with being a human being.
In this novel, the emphasis on beauty is on its temporal quality and its fleeting explosiveness. This tradition has many precedences and followings within Japanese literature.
Kuwabata, Akutagawa, Mishima, Daizai, to name a few of the brilliant comets that lit up the sky of literature. The quality of their writing, undeniable, the nihilistic meaning and conclusion, inescapable.
Almost a autobiographic account, Daizai met a married hostess of a cafe for three days during his college days. He was on the run from the prepared life path placed in front of him, her on the run from the responsibility of providing for her family.
Their love was pure, untainted by the passage of time, unburdened by material thoughts, their only goal was release, into that cradle of eternal abyss......
