The Setting Sun - Hardcover
by Osamu Dazai
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Availability:In StockContributor:Osamu Dazai, Donald KeeneTheme:Cultural Region/Japanese, Topical/Coming of AgePublish date:2022-11-15Pages:192
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811234443ISBN-10:811234444UPC:9780811234443Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, Coming of AgeSize:8.27 x 5.51 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SC50TKD22E
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai's novel 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-13:9780811234443ISBN-10:811234444UPC:9780811234443Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, Coming of AgeSize:8.27 x 5.51 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SC50TKD22E
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.Dazai, Osamu: - The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct.
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