The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai

ISBN 10: 0811200329 / ISBN 13: 9780811200325

Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, US, 1968

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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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Setting Sun
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, US
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811200329
• ISBN 13: 9780811200325
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 214 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was a 20th century Japanese novelist.

Donald Keene is a distinguished translator of Japanese.