The Setting Sun

Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Classics, Literary
Cover of the book The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, New Directions
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Author: Osamu Dazai ISBN: 9780811224253
Publisher: New Directions Publication: January 17, 1968
Imprint: New Directions Language: English
Author: Osamu Dazai
ISBN: 9780811224253
Publisher: New Directions
Publication: January 17, 1968
Imprint: New Directions
Language: 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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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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