The Setting Sun
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The Setting Sun

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The Setting SunThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai's novel 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,

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai's novel 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.

EAN: 9780811234443
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Erscheinungsjahr: 15.11.2022
Autoren: Dazai, Osamu
Übersetzung: Keene, Donald
Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 175
Themenüberschrift: FICTION / Literary
Keyword: japanese fiction; japanese literature; japanese classic; asian literature; no longer human; dazai osamu; oba yozo; double suicide; must read; donald keene; japanese coming of age; coming of age; osamu dazai; postwar japanese; post war japanese fiction; fictionalized autobiography; depression; suicide; harakiri; trauma; psychological; anxiety; addiction; cultural; abnormal; abnormal psychology; society; aristocratic; self-destruction; self-destructive; tokyo; kyoto; osaka; alienation; powerful; semi-autobiographical; tenderness
Fachschema: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachkategorie: Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik~Klassische Belletristik~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Adoleszenz~Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik
Imprint-Titels: New Directions
Länge: 211 mm
Breite: 142 mm
Höhe: 22 mm
Gewicht: 355 gr
Produktform: Gebunden
Genre: Importe
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