The setting sun /
Dazai, Osamu, 1909-1948,
The setting sun / by Osamu Dazai ; translated by Donald Keene. - xviii, 175 pages ; 21 cm. - New directions paperbook ; 258 . - New Directions paperbook ; 258. .
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.
9780811200325 0811200329
56013350
Social classes--Japan--Fiction.
Families--Japan--Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class)--Japan--Fiction.
Japan--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Domestic fiction
PL825.A8 / S513 1968
895.63 / D338S
The setting sun / by Osamu Dazai ; translated by Donald Keene. - xviii, 175 pages ; 21 cm. - New directions paperbook ; 258 . - New Directions paperbook ; 258. .
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.
9780811200325 0811200329
56013350
Social classes--Japan--Fiction.
Families--Japan--Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class)--Japan--Fiction.
Japan--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Domestic fiction
PL825.A8 / S513 1968
895.63 / D338S