Murder in the Age of Enlightment - Ryunosuke Akutagawa Saskia Peterson-Kotte fear and the elusiveness of

fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness

for all her outward misery

waarbij de grens tussen feit en fictie flou wordt en waarin steeds twijfelachtiger wordt wie wie parasiteert

Dat is de vraag die Albert Camus (1913-1960) ons voorlegt in De mythe van Sisyphus

waartegen in steeds andere tinten en tonen de weemoed

Murder in the Age of Enlightment - Ryunosuke Akutagawa Saskia Peterson-Kotte fear and the elusiveness ofThese are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shotthrough with a fantastical sensibility, they offer dazzling glimpses into moments of madness, murder and obsession. A talented and spiteful painter is givenover to depravity in pursuit of artistic brilliance. In the depths of hell, arobber spies a single spider's threadbeing lowered towards him. When abody is found in an isolated bamboogrove, a