The Setting Sun
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ISBN: 9780811200325
Autore:
Dazai Osamu
Tradotto da:
Keene, Professor Donald
Casa editrice:
New Directions
data di pubblicazione: 1968
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Serie: New Directions Book
Lingua:
Inglese
Prezzo: USD 11.95
Numero di pagine: 175
Sinossi
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.
contenuti
1. Snake
2. Fire
3. Moonflowers
4. Letters
5. The Lady
6. Outbreak of Hostilities
7. The Testament
8. Victims
