The setting sun / by Osamu Dazai ; translated by Donald Keene.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: New Directions paperbook ; 258.Description: xviii, 175 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9780811200325; 0811200329Uniform titles: Shay�o. English Subject(s): Social classes -- Japan -- Fiction | Families -- Japan -- Fiction | Aristocracy (Social class) -- Japan -- Fiction | Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fictionDDC classification: 895.63 LOC classification: PL825.A8 | S513 1968Summary: "This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life in a nation in social and moral crisis. 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."--Provided by publisher.
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| FIC/DAWSON Servants of the storm / | FIC/DAY Seeker / | FIC DAZ No longer human / | FIC DAZ The setting sun / | FIC/DE The blue girl / | FIC/DE The living / | FIC/DE Oasis / |
Translation of Shay�o.
Originally published in 1947 by Shinchosha in Japan. This English translation first published in 1956.
"This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life in a nation in social and moral crisis. 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."--Provided by publisher.
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