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4mnee 's review for:
The Setting Sun
by Osamu Dazai
There was something wrong about these people. But perhaps, just as it is true of my love, they could not go on living except in the way they do. If it is true that man, once born into the world, must somehow live out his life, perhaps the appearance that people make in order to go through with it, even if it is as ugly as their appearance, should not be despised. To be alive. To be alive. An intolerably immense undertaking before which one can only gasp in apprehension."
What actually stood out to me the most about this book was hearing this narrative voice from a female protagonist. I feel like I've read countless novels in which a young male protagonist is single-mindedly focused on something and shirks social responsibilities in this pursuance, but to read about a female character casting off societal norms was almost refreshing. I don't think I liked this book as much as No Longer Human, but I like Dazai's writing about social alienation and it was interesting to think about the nebulous status of former aristocrats.
What actually stood out to me the most about this book was hearing this narrative voice from a female protagonist. I feel like I've read countless novels in which a young male protagonist is single-mindedly focused on something and shirks social responsibilities in this pursuance, but to read about a female character casting off societal norms was almost refreshing. I don't think I liked this book as much as No Longer Human, but I like Dazai's writing about social alienation and it was interesting to think about the nebulous status of former aristocrats.