The setting sun
by Dazai, Osamu
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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- Full title :The setting sun / by Osamu Dazai ; translated by Donald Keene.
Summary
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
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- Publication Date:1968, ©1956.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New Directions Corp
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1968, ©1956.
Notes
Translation of Shayō.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 175 pages ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0811200329, 9780811200325
- oclc:ocn964604988
- LC Classification:PL825.A8
- Dewey Decimal:895.63
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