The Setting Sun
The Setting Sun
Author: Osamu Dazai
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/17/1968
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.20w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780811200325
About the Author
Dazai, Osamu: - OSAMU DAZAI was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of Northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French Department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan when he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyo's Tamagawa Reservoir. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday.Keene, Donald: - DONALD KEENE, the author of dozens of books in both English and Japanese as well as the famed translator of Dazai, Kawabata, and Mishima, was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Prize for Literature