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Approaching Silence

By Mark Dennis

Approaching Silence

By Mark Dennis

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Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists, often described as "Japan's Graham Greene," and 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.
Includes an Afterword by Martin Scorsese on adapting Silence for the screen as well as the full text of Steven Dietz's play adaptation of Endo's novel.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
448
Release Date:
2015-02-26
Publication Date:
2015-02-26
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1623562805
ISBN13:
9781623562809
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
759 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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