The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai Hardcover Book

Description: The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of postwar Japanese literature FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazais novel 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. Author Biography Osamu Dazai was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyos Tamagawa Aqueduct. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.Donald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English andJapanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was thefirst non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Review "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, Dazais writings may be regarded as the soliloquies of a deviant." -- Yasunari Kawabata"Dazai offers something permanent and beautiful." -- The New York Times Book Review Review Quote "What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." Details ISBN0811234444 Author Donald Keene Pages 192 Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation Year 2022 ISBN-10 0811234444 ISBN-13 9780811234443 Format Hardcover Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Translator Donald Keene Publication Date 2022-11-15 UK Release Date 2022-11-15 NZ Release Date 2022-11-15 US Release Date 2022-11-15 DEWEY 895.6344 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-01-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139650262;

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