The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai [Paperback, 174 pages]

Description: 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. OSAMU DAZAI was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of Northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French Department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan when he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo's Tamagawa Reservoir. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.

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EAN: 9780811200325

UPC: 9780811200325

ISBN: 9780811200325

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Book Title: Setting Sun

Number of Pages: 174 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Item Height: 0.6 in

Topic: Psychological, Literary

Publication Year: 1968

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 7.4 Oz

Author: Osamu Dazai

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback