- Editorial:
- NEW DIRECTION
- Año de edición:
- 1968
- Materia:
- Novela traducida
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8112-0032-5
- Páginas:
- 175
THE SETTING SUN
DAZAI, OSAMU
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.