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
All his work is worthy. Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe.--Patti Smith
Written with beauty, refinement, and force: a work of unmistakable distinction...-- "Atlantic Monthly"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub date:
1968-01-17
Length:
174 pages
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