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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Osamu Dazai
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- Translated by:
- Donald Keene
- Pub date:
- 01/17/1968
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 174
- ISBN:
- 9780811200325

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