The setting sun
Dazai, Osamu, 1909-19482022
Book
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.
Main title:
The setting sun / Osamu Dazai ; translated by Sam Bett.
Author:
Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948, authorBett, Sam, 1986-, translator
Work:
Imprint:
New York : New Directions Books, 2022.
Collation:
192 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9780811234443 (hbk)
Dewey class:
895.6344
Language:
EnglishJapanese
Added title:
BRN:
3352639