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Setting Sun

Dazai, Osamu
Heftet / 1968 / Engelsk

Product details

ISBN
9780811200325
Published
1968-02-01
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight
245 gr
Height
203 mm
Width
132 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
174

Author
Dazai, Osamu
Translated by
Keene Donald

Biographical note

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. Donald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.

Setting Sun

Dazai, Osamu
Heftet / 1968 / Engelsk
Dazai, Osamu
Heftet / 1968 / Engelsk
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"Written with beauty, refinement, and force: a work of unmistakable distinction…"

- Atlantic Monthly,

"All his work is worthy. Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe."

- Patti Smith,

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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This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.

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"Written with beauty, refinement, and force: a work of unmistakable distinction…"

- Atlantic Monthly,

"All his work is worthy. Dazai was an aristocratic tramp, a self described delinquent, yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe."

- Patti Smith,

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.
Read more
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.

Product details

ISBN
9780811200325
Published
1968-02-01
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight
245 gr
Height
203 mm
Width
132 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
174

Author
Dazai, Osamu
Translated by
Keene Donald

Biographical note

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. Donald Keene, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.

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