Name: The Setting sun (New Directions Book)
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Author: Osamu Dazai

portada The Setting sun (New Directions Book)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Osamu Dazai

Translated by

Donald Keene

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

1968

Language

English

Pages

174

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.2x1.2 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

9780811200325

ISBN13

9780811200325

Synopsis "The Setting sun (New Directions Book) "

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

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(Pseudonym of Tsushima Shuji; Kanagi, 1909 - Tokyo, 1948) Japanese writer. Born from the disillusionment prevalent in his country after the end of World War II, Osamu Dazai's last novels expressed the feelings of a generation that had witnessed the collapse of their traditional values: The Setting Sun (1947), perhaps his most famous work, focuses on the decline of the Japanese nobility after the defeat in the war, while his last book, No Longer Human (1948), narrates in an autobiographical tone the frustration over the national debacle. Known for his ironic and somber wit and the brilliant fantasy of his novels and stories, his obsession with suicide and his constant search for a deeper truth would make him a cult figure among the young readers of his country.

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