Nothing can surpass theterror of the human psyche.
Mine has been a life ofmuch shame.
I can't even guessmyself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Plagued by a maddeninganxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and thejoy 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, lockedarm-in-arm with death.
Osamu Dazai's immortal?andsupposedly autobiographical?work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adaptedhere into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novelone line at a time to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even moredelicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothingcan surpass the terror of the human psyche.
Osamu Dazai's immortal and supposedly autobiographical work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito.
