Zelanator reviewed The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Review of 'The Setting Sun' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Outstanding, especially the ending.
Paperback, 1 pages
English language
Published June 10, 1968 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.
The Setting Sun
by Osamu Dazai
4 stars
(12 reviews)
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effectives of war and the translation from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazzi died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book had made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
Matthew M. Conroy reviewed The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Review of 'The Setting Sun' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This largely sad book makes me feel how much I don't relate to the world. This is a well-respected book, certainly well-crafted, and I find I have difficulty understanding it, appreciating it, or connecting with the characters, (or whatever the appropriate expression is), perhaps since I have been lucky enough never to have suffered privation or the loss of privilege.
