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The setting sun
太宰 治 · 1968
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Book details
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- June 1968
- Pages
- 1
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9780811200325
- ISBN-10
- 0811200329
- Categories
- Fiction
About this book
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 effectives of war and the translation from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazzi died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book had 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.
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