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- PublisherCHARLES E TUTTLE COMPANY
- ISBN 10 480530474X
- ISBN 13 9784805304747
- BindingTankobon Hardcover
- LanguageJapanese
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The Setting Sun. Translated by Donald Keene.
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Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1984
ISBN 10: 480530474X
ISBN 13: 9784805304747
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Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
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Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. Second printing. 175 p. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. - CONTENTS -- 1. Snake -- 2. Fire -- 3. Moonflowers -- 4. Letters -- 5. The Lady -- 6. Outbreak of Hostilities -- 7. The Testament -- 8. Victims -- Set in the early postwar years, this powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis probes the destructive effects of war, and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Though Osamu Dazai died a suicide in 1948, the influence of this book, often considered his masterpiece, has made the term "people of the setting sun" (i.e., the declining aristocracy) a permanent part of the Japanese language. And Dazai's heroine, Kazuko, the strong-willed young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, stands as a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world. Dazai's writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima. Donald Keene, the distinguished translator, has said of the author's work: "His world. suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France. but there is a Japanese sensi- bility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." Of this novel, Keene writes: "Victims of a transitional period in morality' is how Kazuko styles herself and her lover, and we feel that she is right. A modus vivendi with Western things has nearly been achieved, but the full effect of Western ideas has yet to be felt. The Setting Sun derives much of its power from its portrayal of the ways in which the new ideas have destroyed the Japanese aristocracy. The novel created an immediate sensa- tion when it first appeared. It is generally conceded that Dazai is one of the great chroniclers of contemporary Japanese life, and this major achievement was reached despite the shortness of his life and career. But The Setting Sun is not to be considered [merely] a sociological document of help to those who wish to learn more about an obscure or distant country. It is a powerful and beautiful novel by one of the most brilliant of recent Japanese writers and stands as such in the world of literature." -- Shuji Tsushima (whose pen name was Osamu Dazai) was born into a wealthy landowning family in northern Japan in 1909. He began writing short stories while studying French literature at Tokyo Imperial University (which he left without a degree), and soon became well known among the younger generation in Japan, not least for his bohemianism and excesses. After World War II he gained wide recognition for his novels, particularly The Setting Sun and No Longer Human. His works are auto- biographical at least to the extent that we find in most of them the personage of a dissolute young man of good family, but Dazai was also gifted with a fertile imagination. Following several unsuccessful suicide attempts, he drowned himself at the age of thirty-eight together with a lover. -- Donald Keene is professor of Japanese at Columbia University. Among his many other translations are those of Dazai's No Longer Human and works by Kobo Abe and Yukio Mishima. He is editor of Anthology of Japanese Literature and Modern Jap- anese Literature, and author of Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers and World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-modern Era, 1600-1867. He received the Order of the Rising Sun in 1974 for his service to Japanese literature. ISBN 9784805304747 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 149. Seller Inventory # 1252812
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The Setting Sun
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 480530474X. Mass market paperback . Fourth printing from 1989. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. No Signature. Seller Inventory # 223521
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Setting Sun
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00044999667
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Setting Sun
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.4. Seller Inventory # 480530474X-2-3
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