The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai Salamander de echtgenote van een rijke

de echtgenote van een rijke ondernemer

De gouden ezel is een feest van taal

en laat zien hoe geschiedenis uiterst relevant is om onze eigen tijd én seksualiteit beter te begrijpen

the austere building-blocks of his world become the expressions of passionate emotion

Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice

The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai Salamander de echtgenote van een rijkeSet 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.