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Stained Glass Elegies: Stories (Revived Modern Classic)

3 reviews
Shusaku Endo

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990

As eloquent and powerful as anthing you'll ever read.
This is a collection of short stories spanning a twenty year period from the late 50's to the late 70's, and in these stories we come across most of Endo's favourite themes - martyrs of Christianity in Japan, the stories of those who apostatized (gave up their religion for fear of torture and persecution), Endo's own prolonged illness and his fear of suffering, and his own religious ...

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the Present (Modern Asian Literature ...

Columbia University Press, 2007

In Volume 2 of Columbia's comprehensive anthology of modern Japanese literature, thoughtfully selected and carefully translated readings portray the vast changes that have transformed Japanese culture since the end of the Pacific War. Beginning with the Allied Occupation in 1945 and concluding with the early twenty-first century, these stories, poems, plays, and essays reflect Japan's heady transition from poverty to prosperity, its struggle ...

The Samurai (New Directions Classics)

22 reviews
Shusaku Endo

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997

A small masterpiece
At first sight, a book about Japan, Mexic, Spain and Italy, a book about religion in Japan and religion in medieval Europe. However, it is actually a book about people, but in its story religion plays an important role. It is a book written by a (Christian) Japanese, in which Japan is not regarded as the end of them all, instead it contrasts - many times negatively - to other parts of the world. ...

The Final Martyrs

1 review
Shusaku Endo

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1994

Short Stories: Endo-Style
This is the first book by Shusaku Endo I have read in a long while, so it has been good to get back into his work. "Final Martyrs" is a collection of short stories on a variety of themes, all of them very human and very much in Endo's usual style and focus. The short stories are notable for their indebtedness to Endo's life. Many are set in French or European settings, or have elements of ...

Deep River

22 reviews
Shusaku Endo

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995

Searching for Peace in an Expanded Horizon
This is a beautiful story of 5 people searching for the inner peace that has eluded them throughout much, if not all, of their lives. The cause of their inner turmoil comes from a variety of sources but their emptiness and incompleteness is very real. Shusaku Endo introduces us to each of them seperately and then has them all, for seperate reasons, journey to India. They are in a guided tour ...

Five by Endo: (New Directions Bibelots)

2 reviews
Shusaku Endo

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000

Five Easy Pieces, Vintage Endo
Mr. Endo is a rarity: a Japanese Catholic novelist, a literary Sadao Watanabe. His Catholicism and literary studies in Europe have made him the most accessible of Japanese novelists to the western reader. Those who know and appreciate his work will welcome these five short stories, and will recognize his usual style and typical concerns. A novelist retraces the steps of the Christian martyrs ...

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945 (Modern Asian ...
J. Thomas Rimer, Van C. Gessel

Columbia University Press, 2007

This comprehensive anthology collects works of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay-writing from a pivotal time in Japanese history. In addition to their literary achievements, the texts reflect the political, social, and intellectual changes that occurred in Japanese society during this period, including exposure to Western ideas and literature, the rise of nationalism, and the complex interaction of traditional and modern forces. The volume ...

20th Century garden and landscape architecture in the Netherlands
Cornelis van Eesteren, Gerritjan Deunk, ...

NAi Publishers, 2002

Following on the succesful heels of 20th Century Architecture in the Netherlands and 20th Century Urban Design in the Netherlands comes a third survey focused on highlights and developments in the field of garden and landscape design--in the Netherlands, obviously. Decade by decade, themes discussed include: the transition from utilitarian greenery to greenery for consumption; the Zuiderzee Works; changes in agriculture; the role of the ...

The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories 1929-1984 (Japan's Modern Writers)

4 reviews

Kodansha International (JPN), 1993

An Excellent Anthology Spanning the Showa Years
This is a really fine collection of short stories. The focus holding the collection together is of course the Showa Period (1926-1988), but this is such a tumultuous time in history that there is quite a bit of difference in feel between the first story (1929) and the last (1984). The writers are a real mixed bunch, too, so that one gets a pretty good sense of the wide range of literature during ...

Scandal (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

7 reviews
Van C. Gessel

Peter Owen Ltd, 2006

deep and thought-provoking
Endo doesn't give you easy answers. This book explores the darker side of human nature, the side behind easy domestic life, beyond common decency, beneath worldly success. It may not be a pleasant book to read, as it doesn't gloss over the capacity for evil in a human being, but it is a book that will leave you thinking about just how authentic you are. If you're not ready to face brutal ...

When I Whistle (Unesco Collection of Contemporary Works)

3 reviews
Shusaku Endo, Van C. Gessel

Owen, Peter Publishing, 1979

Deceptively simple but packs a powerful punch
As translated by Van C. Gessel, _When I Whistle_ uses spare, simple prose in switching back and forth between the stories of Ozu, a nostalgic World War II veteran, and his son Eiichi, an ambitious doctor. As Ozu's reminiscences move closer to the present, the two narratives interlock with devastating effect. Like much of Endo's other writing, _When I Whistle_ is elegaic and concerned with serious ...

Scandal
Shusaku (Gessel, Van C. editor) Endo

Tuttle, 1988

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