Lights and shadows in Kajii Motojirô’s writtings

Abstract

Kajii Motojirô (1901-1932) is a writer with a short literary career, it lasted only seven years and ended with his early death by tuberculosis. The disease is a constant presence in the twenty short stories compiled in Remon (Lemon, 1931). Lights, shadows and darkness are also frequent subjects in his texts and they are intimately tied to his physical condition and mental state. This article is about the undertones that these relations bring to his literary work.