donie 's review for:

Pandora's Box by Osamu Dazai, Shelley Marshall

4.0

hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Despair is impossible in humans. They often are deceived by hope, but are also deceived by the notion of despair.

This has a more hopeful and optimistic tone compared to The Setting Sun and No Longer Human. The unreliability of the narrator aside, it's too bad that I can't help but feel there are some stuffs in this novel that were not translated very well from its original language and makes it hard to comprehend. I still enjoyed it a lot though, and somehow the more I think about this book, the more I come to like it.