He is abused by a female servant during his childhood, but decides reporting it would be useless. First Memorandum: Overcome by an intense feeling of alienation and otherness and finding it nearly impossible to understand those who surround him who live in egoism and bad faith, Ōba can't help but resort to buffoonery in order to establish interpersonal relationships.The novel is composed of three chapters, or "memoranda", which chronicle the life of Ōba from early childhood to late twenties. No Longer Human is told in the form of notebooks left by one Ōba Yōzō ( 大庭葉蔵), a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who is instead forced to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity.
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