The Setting Sun

Description

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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Contributors: Osamu Dazai,Donald Keene (Translator)
Published: 11/15/2022
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811234443
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 0.87″ H x 8.27″ L x 5.51″ W

About the Author
Keene, Donald: – Donald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.Dazai, Osamu: – The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.