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Disquiet: Page-spotter, a bibliography in progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Published in Japan in 1961, this police procedural sets a traditional homicide detective on a trail that leads him into the milieu of a cutting-edge group of art-world figures. |
| | Contemporary art — and, in particular, musique concrete — represents Western cultural influence to a salaryman police officer who writes haikus while taking trains to the remote countryside to follow leads. |
| | Over the course of the investigation, Inspector Imanishi absorbs what he learns about electronic music, reflecting at one point, "The sound of the night train followed a simple rhythm. |
| www.disquiet.com /page-spotter.html (4327 words) |
