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Endo Shusaku 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 looks through a wider lens on Endo's work, comparing Silence 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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Approaching Silence
• Subtitle: New Perspectives on Shusaku Endo's Classic Novel
• Author: Martin Scorsese, Mark Dennis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9781623562809
• ISBN: 1623562805
• ID: 04840379
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 674 g
• Dimensions: 300 × 226 × 42 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. April 2015

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