The Setting Sun

Details

ISBN-10: 0811234444
ISBN-13: 9780811234443
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 11/15/2022
Dimensions: 8.27" L, 5.51" W, 0.87" H

The Setting Sun

byOsamu Dazai
Translator: Donald Keene

Hardcover

Price: $24.95

Overview

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, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai’s novel 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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What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide.–Yukio Mishima
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811234444
ISBN-13: 9780811234443
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 11/15/2022
Dimensions: 8.27" L, 5.51" W, 0.87" H
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