The Setting Sun
byOsamu Dazai
Genres: Historical fictionFiction
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.
Language
English
Published on
02/01/1968
Pages
1
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780811200325
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