The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the shock of defeat and to the occupation of Japan by American forces and their allies. Osamu Dazai’s The Setting Sun takes this milieu as its background to tell the story of the decline of a minor aristocratic family.
The story is told through the eyes of Kazuko, the unmarried daughter of a widowed aristocrat. Her search for self meaning in a society devoid of use for her forms the crux of the novel. ...
я случайно набрела на издание с отличным послесловием переводчика, который вкратце описал биографию осаму, связь его жизни и героев этого произведения. без этой добавочной части понять произведение было бы сложнее. в общем переводчик молодец.