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The Setting Sun

PaperbackPaperback
Ranking1197961inBelletristik
CHF23.90

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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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8112-0032-5
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
PublisherWiley
Publishing date17/01/1968
Pages175 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 132 mm, Height 203 mm, Thickness 17 mm
Weight227 g
Article no.2904749
Publisher's article no.20032
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.1150068
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

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 Tokyo's Tamagawa Aqueduct. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.