The Setting Sun
Dazai, Osamu1968
Book
Total copies: 1
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.
Main title:
The Setting Sun / Osamu Dazai ; translated by Donald Keene.
Author:
Dazai, Osamu, authorKeene, Donald, translator
Work:
Imprint:
New York : New Directions Books, 1968.
Collation:
174 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780811200325
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
387913