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Article: The god of silence: Shusaku Endo's reading of the Passion. (critique of the Japanese novel 'Silence')
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- Commonweal
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- March 13, 1998
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A tree which flourishes in one kind of soil may wither if the soil is changed. As for the tree of Christianity, in a foreign country its leaves may grow thick and the buds may be rich, while in Japan the leaves wither and no bud appears. Father, have you never thought of the difference in the soil, the difference in the water?
Shusaku Endo's Silence
The difference in the soil, the difference in the water, are what haunt the life and writings of Shusaku Endo, the great Japanese novelist who died in 1996. Endo was seared by the terrible homelessness of being a Christian in Japan, and most commentary on his work focuses on the awkward encounter of Christianity ...
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Article: The Washington Post Book Club; SILENCE, by Shusaku ...
The Washington Post;
October 6, 2002 ;
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... ... Japanese novelist and essayist Shusaku Endo (1923-96) has often been ... expelling foreigners and isolating Japan from the rest of the world ... Christovao Ferreira, sent to Japan by the Society of Jesus in ... in surreptitiously entering Japan with the help of a young Japanese ...
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