The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

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.

"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide" -- Yukio Mishima
"From the point of view of wholesome common sense, Dazai’s writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant." -- Yasunari Kawabata
"Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful." -- The New York Times Book Review

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. 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.

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ISBN 13	9780811234443
ISBN 10	0811234444
Title	The Setting Sun
Author	Osamu Dazai
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published	2022-11-15
Number of pages	192
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