太宰治 Dazai Osamu 1909–1948

人間失格

No Longer Human

初出 1948年全6章のうち2章を公開公開分 10,731字

恥の多い生涯を送って来ました。裕福な家に生まれながら人間の生活が分からず、道化で人とつながろうとした男・大庭葉蔵の三冊の手記と、それを託された語り手の序とあとがき。太宰治の最後の完成した長編で、没後の1948年に刊行された。

Mine has been a life of much shame. Three notebooks left by Oba Yozo, a man born to wealth who could never grasp what human life was and clung to others through clowning, framed by the prologue and afterword of the narrator who received them. Dazai's last completed novel, published in 1948, the year of his death.