The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)
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The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)Osamu Dazai
Publisher: New Directions
January 1968
EAN: 9780811200325
ISBN: 0811200329
Synopsis: 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.
Publisher: New Directions
January 1968
EAN: 9780811200325
ISBN: 0811200329
Synopsis: 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.