Name: The Setting Sun
Rating: 3.935 (100 reviews)
ISBN: 9780811200325

Osamu Dazai

Novel of present day Japan. Reaction of an upper-class family to the war and the resultant cultural impact.

The Setting Sun

Took me forever to finish this idk why I really liked no longer human but I’ve been so stuck with this one 

Kat 

“As long as you love me, all I want is to spend my whole life by your side.”

𓂃 𓈒𓏸

felt empathy towards Kazuko’s feelings of longing and the flashbacks as a way of fleshing out the identities of the character truly made each one feel really whole

Lettuce Wrapped Cabbage Cat

Not a match for “No Longer Human”, I found this bleakness in this story less poignant.  

Xiang

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 effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has 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.

on the last day of the cursed year that is 2022, i did not expect to pick this up and like it 

. i did not, after all, enjoy 'no longer human' all that much*.

'the setting sun' is a reflection of the dusk of japanese aristocracy and the struggle of the upper echelons to adjust to the new times. i am rare to sympathise with the aristocracy - however, dazai's depection is incredibly empathetic to the point where one cannot help but be immersed within the struggles of kazuko and her family.

the novel is an excellent and gripping (in spite of its shortness) family drama that represents a pivotal moment of japanese history.

*perhaps having a female character as the p.o.v. helped lessen the moments of misogyny which lets the reader immerse themself better into the novel.

on the last day of the cursed year that is 2022, i did not expect to pick this up and like it this much. i did not, after all, enjoy 'no longer human' all that much*.

'the setting sun' is a reflection of the dusk of japanese aristocracy and the struggle of the upper echelons to adjust to the new times. i am rare to sympathise with the aristocracy - however, dazai's depection is incredibly empathetic to the point where one cannot help but be immersed within the struggles of kazuko and her family.

the novel is an excellent and gripping (in spite of its shortness) family drama that represents a pivotal moment of japanese history.

*perhaps having a female character as the p.o.v. helped lessen the moments of misogyny which lets the reader immerse themself better into the novel.

Hellboy TCR

Novel takes a turn for the worse in chapter 4, I have no clue why. I tried one more chapter. Done.

The Setting Sun

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