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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Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN: 9780811200325Weight: 245 gDimensions: 203 x 132 x 15 mm
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"Written with beauty,refinement,and force: a work of unmistakable distinction...""All his work is worthy. Dazai was an aristocratic tramp,a self described delinquent,yet he wrote with the forbearance of a fasting scribe."
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