In my previous post, I covered Juliet Winters Carpenter’s new version of Osamu Dazai’s 1947 novel The Setting Sun, with a brief mention of Donald Keene’s 1956 translation, and as was the case a while back with No Longer Human, I thought it might be a good idea to compare the two. How? With a […]| Tony's Reading List
It’s not often I cover a book for the second time on the blog, but with today’s selection, I do have my reasons. For one thing, my original review, written back in 2011, was a fairly brief look at the book, a mini-review which said very little. More importantly, though, this second take is based […]| Tony's Reading List