The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)

The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)

Osamu Dazai Donald Keene

$21.24 - $28.47
(No reviews yet) Write a Review
UPC:
9780811200325
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1968-01-17
Author:
Osamu Dazai
Language:
english
Edition:
Revised
Adding to cart… The item has been added

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, 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.

!