Junji Ito: No longer human

Alkuteos: 人間失格  [Ningen shikkaku. Vol. 1-3] (2017-2018)

Kääntäjä: Jocelyne Allen

Kuvittaja: Junji Ito

Teksti: Junji Ito & Osamu Dazai

Ilmestymisaika: 2019 (ko.painos)

Kustantaja: VIZ Media

Sivumäärä: 615

ISBN: 9781974707096

Muoto: Sid.

Peukku: q^^

*Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star.

Mine has been a life of much shame.

I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.

Osamu Dazai’s immortal—and supposedly autobiographical—work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo’s mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.*

Julman hyvä sovitus. Tyyli on taattua Itoa, joten joskus ihmisten ilmeet ovat melko ällöttäviä. Toisaalta tyyli tuo hyvin esiin ihmisten rumuuden ja hulluuden. Paikoitellen tämä on todella raskasta luettavaa. Ylipäätään Yozo on aika ällöttävä henkilöhahmo.