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Article: Shusaku Endo's "A Summer in Rouen": a tragicomedy of virtues unhad and goods ungained.(Critical essay)
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- Studies in the Humanities
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Introduction
Western interest in Shusaku Endo's works has grown steadily since the appearance of Silence in its English translation in 1969. (1) That novel established Endo as a writer of great religious insight, someone with noteworthy views about redemption, mercy, and the problem of evil. The Samurai (J 1980, E 1984) and Stained Glass Elegies (E 1985) confirmed this reputation. Endo's works have also been recognized as lively commentaries on the deep differences between Japanese and European ways of thinking. Silence and the novella And You, Too (J 1965, E 1989) are powerful psychological portraits of characters whose eventual grasp of a foreign culture is as ...
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Article: Obituary : Shusaku Endo
The Independent - London;
October 2, 1996 ;
442 words
...It was honest of James Kirkup, in his obituary of Shusaku Endo {1 October}, to admit that "Endo was one of those Japanese writers, like Mishima and Oe, who never appealed to me", writes ...
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