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    <body><![CDATA[An analysis of sickness and love in the grip of large scale sickness and destruction. An analysis without recourse to logical analysis - like poetry.<br/><br/><em>&quot;A science which is postulated on the assumption that human beings are avaricious through all eternity is utterly devoid of point (whe...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63133778">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first time I've read anything by Osamu Dazai. Apparently, Dazai was a tragic figure - he became addicted to morphine and made several suicide attempts before he succeeded in 1948. The translator's notes say that he was considered one of the great chroniclers of contempory Japanese life. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74314809">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Second time through this perfect book, the first being a dozen years ago.  The Keene introduction does a good job of highlighting some of the things I enjoy most about Japanese writing and characterization:<br/><br/>&quot;At the same time, she remains unmistakably Japanese in her relations with the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72401683">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In the same fashion as his predecessors, Natsume Soseki (Kokoro) and Tanizaki Junichiro (Naomi), Dazai provides an insightful historical account in <em>The Setting Sun</em>, as much as he draws a story of intense emotional appeal.  All three of these prominent novelists have written, so deftly, about a Japan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44485280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In the days, weeks and months following 9/11 I had a really difficult time getting a grasp on reality. I pretty much walked around the city in a daze for quite a while not knowing what to make of any of it. I frankly still don't know what to make of any of it...<br/><br/>So I can't even imagine wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12219688">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's unfortunate that Dazai doesn't get widely read in this country, because this is some amazing shit.  If Japan had a Rimbaud, it would be this dude.  While it's an often bleak story of aristocratic life at loggerheads with the modern age, it's an unbelievably touching portrait of a family, akin t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43881986">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is from perspective (in ich-forma) of young noble woman from poverished noble family. Her brother is alcoholic, her mother is ill and she is desperate... Very sad novel. <br/>I love short stories by Dazai, but I don´t like this novel.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Family in a lyrical way is sad. In Dazai’s terms quiet depressive. The whole narration is in a very sad nearly cold tone of manners. This book tale about an aristocrat Japanese family seeing their lives falls into pieces after the war. I fall in love deeply with Kazuko character shown in her despe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4914272">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am reading this in Japanese.  I have decided I really don't like post-WWII writers like Dazai and Oe, because they are trying too hard to be &quot;modern&quot; and risque and from a twenty-first century perspective their writing seems like something a precocious college boy would write. But I have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28715460">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's astounding how huge the gaps are in my knowledge of literature.  I've read almost NO Japanese bks &amp; NONE from Africa.  I did read this but I don't remember jack-shit about it.  I guess I'm just going to have to live another 54 yrs to fill in the gaps.  Then I'll have to live another 54 yrs to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17629327">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the imageries here.  The ending is explosive!  It's the most unforgettable part in the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i guess this is &quot;Shayo&quot;?? i never knew it was translated! but, i guess i shouldn't be that surprised.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite interesting but a little bit boring]]></body>
    
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