“…but it was extremely difficult for me to explain to Shigeko how much I feared them all, and how I was cursed by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them – a process which eventually compelled me to runaway from everybody.”Īs a child, Yozo masked his fearsomeness of the human species with mischief and petulant clowning, believing himself to be a thespian and spectacle among his peers, teachers, and family members. Forlorn, morose, and loathsome, Yozo begins his life as an anomaly. His first-person narration describes a deep-seated despondency, a skin born unto him in which he had no way of shedding. The bewildering guise of human beings comes into perspective as Yozo, a young man raised in rural Japan, experiences a series of events that question the nature of human morality and ethics.
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