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The Setting Sun

by Osamu Dazai
Donald Keene
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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, 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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Publisher: New Directions

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  • Release date: August 1, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9780811224253
  • File size: 453 KB
  • Release date: August 1, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9780811224253
  • File size: 453 KB
  • Release date: August 1, 2014

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Classic Literature Fiction Literature

Languages

English

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, 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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Classic Literature Fiction Literature