The Setting Sun
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ISBN: 9780811200325
Autor/in:
Dazai Osamu
Übersetzer/in:
Keene, Professor Donald
Verlag:
New Directions
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1968
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Serie: New Directions Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Preis: USD 11.95
Anzahl der Seiten: 175
Übersicht
This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life in a nation in social and moral crisis. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozumu 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 ayoung aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie that pervades so much of the modern world.
Inhalt
1. Snake
2. Fire
3. Moonflowers
4. Letters
5. The Lady
6. Outbreak of Hostilities
7. The Testament
8. Victims
