The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai Edgar de Bruin Na de eerste nacht beseft

Na de eerste nacht beseft ze dat ze alleen is

de machtige Kublai Kan

Op deze hectische odyssee

over wat haar schrijven en leven samenhoudt en verbindt

hoewel ze in niets op haar lijkt

The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai Edgar de Bruin Na de eerste nacht beseftSet 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.