The Setting Sun
By Osamu Dazai
Translated by Donald Keene
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780811200325
- Pages:
- 174
- Published:
- Publisher:
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Imprint:
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Weight:
- 248 g