The Setting Sun
The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai
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Product Info
ISBN: 9.78081E+12
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Date: 1/17/68
Binding: Paperback
Age Range: -
Grade Range: NA-NA
Series: New Directions Book,
Pages:
Language: English
BISAC: Fiction, Literary, Classics, Coming of Age, World Literature, Asia (General), Historical, 20th Century - Post-World War II, and Psychological
Related Subjects: Japan, Social conditions, 1945-, and Political fiction
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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.