The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: Jan 17th, 1968
Pages: 174
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.98in - 5.20in - 0.49in - 0.44lb
EAN: 9780811200325
Categories: • Literary• Classics• Coming of Age

About the Author

Keene, Donald: - Donald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.

Dazai, Osamu: - The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct.

Praise for this book

Written with beauty, refinement, and force: a work of unmistakable distinction...-- "Atlantic Monthly"

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