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The Setting Sun

The Setting Sun

Dazai, Osamu
Keene, Donald

Hardcover

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0811234444
ISBN13: 9780811234443
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 15 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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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