The Setting Sun

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The Setting Sun

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ISBN: 9780811200325
author: Dazai Osamu
translator: Keene, Professor Donald
publishing house: New Directions
publication date: 1968 -2
series: New Directions Book
language: English
price: USD 11.95
number of pages: 175

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Setting Sun

斜陽

Dazai Osamu    Keene, Professor Donald

Overview

This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life in a nation in social and moral crisis. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozumu 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 ayoung aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie that pervades so much of the modern world.

contents

1. Snake
2. Fire
3. Moonflowers
4. Letters
5. The Lady
6. Outbreak of Hostilities
7. The Testament
8. Victims

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