The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai - The Reading List

Today we're talking about a classic of Japanese literature, The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai. I recently finished reading this book, and I fell in love with Dazai as a writer all over again. It's a very different book from No Longer Human, so if that's your primary exposure to Dazai's work (it was for me), you are in for a surprise. Both books are beautiful, though, and I recommend them, even with the vintage translations.
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The model of Kazuko is considered Poet " Shizuko Ohta " who was a lover of Dazai. Shizuko became single mother (with a daughter of Dazai) and got disinherited by her parents, but would overcome the hardships of the life.
For The Setting Sun as well as for No Longer Human, Dazai described pretty much of his own life experiences for his novels. But his real life and novels are two different existences, which I came to understand after I grew up.
I'm from Japan and I know many Japanese readers guess Dazai was a person like the protagonist in No Longer Human... The protagonist maybe a par

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Thanks for your review on the book! I just started reading it, it’s very good.