The Setting Sun - Paperback
by Osamu Dazai
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Availability:In StockContributor:Osamu Dazai, Donald KeeneSeries:New Directions BookTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Cultural Region/Asian, Cultural Region/Japanese, Topical/Coming of AgePublish date:1968-01-17Pages:174
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811200325ISBN-10:811200329UPC:9780811200325Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, Coming of AgeSize:7.98 x 5.20 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SC4Q65NZ22
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811200325ISBN-10:811200329UPC:9780811200325Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, Coming of AgeSize:7.98 x 5.20 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SC4Q65NZ22
Dazai, Osamu: - OSAMU DAZAI was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of Northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French Department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan when he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo's Tamagawa Reservoir. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.Keene, Donald: - DONALD KEENE, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature
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