Osamu Dazai / Donald Keene
Overview
Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature 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.
Other editions (20)
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斜阳 中信出版社 2025 -
斜阳 江苏凤凰文艺出版社 2020 -
斜阳 广西师范大学出版社 2020 -
斜阳 江苏凤凰文艺出版社 2020 -
斜阳 哈尔滨出版社 2019 -
斜阳 2017 -
斜阳 上海译文出版社 2016 -
斜陽 自由之丘文創 2016 -
斜阳 2014 -
斜阳 重庆出版社 2013 -
斜陽 立村文化 2009 -
斜阳 吉林出版集团有限责任公司 2009 -
斜阳 重庆出版社 2008 -
斜陽 新潮社 2003 -
斜陽 亞洲圖書有限公司 2003 -
斜陽 集英社 1999 -
斜阳 山东文艺出版社 1999 -
斜阳 上海译文出版社 1981 -
The Setting Sun New Directions 1968 -
斜阳 北京理工大学出版社 None