The Man Without Talent
無能の人
The Man Without Talent is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan.
(Source: New York Review Books)
Themes & Tags
Characters
Sukezou Sukegawa
助川 助三
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Downfall
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Relations
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MANGA
Tsuge Yoshiharu Taizen
MANGAStaff
Yoshiharu Tsuge
Story & Art
Ryan Holmberg
Translator (English)
Yoko Ogihara
Translator (Spanish)
Fernando Cordobés
Translator (Spanish)
FAQ
- What is The Man Without Talent about?
- The Man Without Talent is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with.
- Is The Man Without Talent still ongoing?
- The Man Without Talent is currently finished. It has 6 chapters.
- Who are the main characters in The Man Without Talent?
- The main characters are Sukezou Sukegawa.
