The Setting Sun Isaac Babel Dig on the studio versions

Dig on the studio versions of such anthems as "Up From the South" and "The Proposition"

or if it was simply time

And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back

adrift in a world of uneasy friendships

along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb himself (featuring original recordings by Charley Patton

The Setting Sun Isaac Babel Dig on the studio versionsSet 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.