The Setting Sun  (English, Paperback, Dazai Osamu)

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. #TheSettingSun #DazaiOsamu #JapaneseLiterature #PostWarJapan #ClassicFiction #ModernJapaneseClassics #CulturalCritique #LiteraryMasterpiece #MelancholicThemes #SocietalDecay #FamilyDrama #Existentialism #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #TragicTales #HistoricalFiction #AsianLiterature #PsychologicalNovel #DepressionEra #WarImpact #CharacterStudy