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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.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- ISBN: 9780811200325
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 7.98 x 0.49
- Number Of Pages: 174
- Publication Year: 1968
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HPB S. - 6 years 1 month agoThe book was a bit of a mixed bag overall. While I felt it really helped to get into the likely mental state of Dazai at the very end of his life, it also felt like I was missing context from his earlier work. The contrast might have helped to understand more. The book ends up having a Caulfield effect where some will likely deeply empathize with the main characters while others will deeply dislike him. In some ways, it was hard to get grasp at the numerous sources of his sense of failure, but that might be true to life as well. I recommend trying it, and do read the introduction if you are interested in the perception of Japanese literature at the time of the first edition (around 1950).