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The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- By: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: June Angela
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORE OSAMU DAZAI TRANSLATIONS PLEASE!!!!!
- By Lucky on 10-19-22
- The Setting Sun
- New Directions Book
- By: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: June Angela
A Tragic/Difficult Story
Reviewed: 02-13-25
I brought this model into a class I teach, hoping to educate my students on aspects of Japanese culture through their literature. While they did learn and engage, certain topics in the novel created issues. Suicide is an important subject to acknowledge, but it seemed to be a difficult aspect to examine. The author attempted suicide several times and eventually died because of it. It's tragic, and it makes sense to see suicide in the novel as it is a I-Novel. Still, my students had a difficult time approaching the subject, and I felt just as uneasy. So, it's a phenomenal novel, but it contains delicate subject matter.
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