The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai Edgar de Bruin Klytaimnestra

Klytaimnestra

stramme pennenlikker met je machteloze woede

komen er allerlei herinneringen uit Fuyuko’s verleden naar boven

Op deze hectische odyssee

kan dat ene thema worden bediend door één pen van dienst

The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai Edgar de Bruin KlytaimnestraSet 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.