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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Osamu Dazai,Donald Keene (Translator)
Published: 01/17/1968
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811200325
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 0.49″ H x 7.98″ L x 5.20″ 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.
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