The Setting Sun

The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene
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Paperback
h203 x 132mm - 174pg
1 Feb 1968 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780811200325
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This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis in the early postwar years probes the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of this book, often considered Dazai's masterpiece, made the term 'people of the setting sun' - the declining aristocracy - a permanent part of the Japanese language. Dazai's heroine, Kazuko, the strong-willed young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, stands as a symbol of the anomie that pervades so much of the modern world.The distinguished translator Donald Keene has said of the author's work: 'His world...suggest Chekhov or possibly postwar France...but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book.'
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780811200325
Published: 1 Feb 1968
Published In: United States
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 214g
Pages: 174

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