The Setting Sun
The Setting Sun
The Setting Sun
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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.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide.--Yukio Mishima
From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai's writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant.--Yasunari Kawabata
Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful.-- "The New York Times Book Review"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub date:
2022-11-15
Length:
192 pages
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