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The setting sun / by Osamu Dazai ; translated by Donald Keene.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: New Directions paperbook ; 258.Description: xviii, 175 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780811200325
  • 0811200329
Uniform titles:
  • Shay�o. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 895.63 D338S
LOC classification:
  • PL825.A8 S513 1968
Summary: "This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life in a nation in social and moral crisis. 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."--Provided by publisher.
Item type: Book
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Translation of Shay�o.

Originally published in 1947 by Shinchosha in Japan. This English translation first published in 1956.

"This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life in a nation in social and moral crisis. 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."--Provided by publisher.

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