Approaching Silence : new perspectives on Shusaku Endo's classic novel /
"Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists and is often described as "Japan's Graham Greene." Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece. Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Summary: | "Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists and is often described as "Japan's Graham Greene." Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece. Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the complexities of discipleship and martyrdom; the face of Christ; and, the bodhisattva ideal as well as the nature of suffering. It also frames Silence through a wider lens, comparing it to Endo's other works as well as to the fiction of other authors. Approaching Silence promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 423 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781623562809 1623562805 9781623569839 1623569834 |