A01=Osamu Dazai
alienation
Author_Osamu Dazai
camus stranger
Category=FBA
coming of age
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mishima
psychological
world war two
wwii
Product details
- ISBN 9780811200325
- Weight: 248g
- Dimensions: 132 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 1968
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct.
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.
