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The Setting Sun

Dazai, OsamuKeene, Donald(Translated by)
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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.

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0811200329 / 9780811200325
Paperback / softback
813.6
01/02/1968
United States
English
174 pages
132 x 203 mm, 245 grams