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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The Setting Sun is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. It was published in 1947 and is set in Japan after World War II. Principal characters are Kazuko, her brother Naoji, and their elderly mother. The story shows a family in decline and crisis, like many other families during this... Read Full Overview

The Setting Sun, novel by Dazai Osamu, published in 1947 . It is a tragic, vividly painted story of life in postwar Japan.The narrator is Kazuko, a young woman born to gentility but now impoverished. Though she wears Western clothes, her outlook is Japanese; her life is static,... Read Full Overview

Un mundo cerrado, en ruinas, sin salida ni amanecer a la vista es lo que se retrata en El Ocaso, ca da del sol y de sue os de grandeza en el otrora Imperio del sol naciente. Tras la II Guerra mundial la inestabilidad y la angustia se apoderan de las nuevas generaciones japonesas... Read Full Overview

Il sole si spegne la storia di una famiglia nobile, caduta in disgrazia dopo la seconda guerra mondiale.In un crescendo drammatico, la giovane Kazuko racconta, attraverso la tragica epopea della propria famiglia, la graduale scomparsa dei valori tradizionali in una societ ... Read Full Overview