The Setting Sun
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ISBN: 9780811200325
écrit par:
Dazai Osamu
traduit par:
Keene, Professor Donald
édition:
New Directions
date de publication: 1968
-2
série: New Directions Book
langue:
Anglais
prix: USD 11.95
nombre de pages: 175
résumé
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.
contenus
1. Snake
2. Fire
3. Moonflowers
4. Letters
5. The Lady
6. Outbreak of Hostilities
7. The Testament
8. Victims
