01199nam a2200193Ia 4500 CTU_113461 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 895.635 D277 Dazai, Osamu The setting sun Osamu Dazai; Translated by Donald Keene [Norfolk, Conn., ] J. Laughlin 1956 Novel by Dazai Osamu, published in 1947 as Shayo. 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, and she recognizes that she is spiritually empty. In the course of the novel she survives the deaths of her aristocratic mother and her sensitive, drug-addicted brother Naoji, an intellectual ravaged by his own and by society's spiritual failures. She also spends a sad, sordid night with the dissipated writer Uehara, and she conceives a child in the hope that it will be the first step in a moral revolution. Japan fiction,Japan literature M.Loan Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ