The Samurai - Brossura

Endo, Shusaku

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0720613531 ISBN 13: 9780720613537

Casa editrice: Peter Owen Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

"Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists."  —Graham Greene In 1613, four low-ranking Japanese Samurai, accompanied by a Spanish priest, set sail for Mexico on an unprecedented mission: to bargain for a Catholic crusade through Japan in exchange for trading rights with the West. Among the first Japanese ever to set foot in Europe, they travel to Rome and gain an audience with the Pope. All are baptized, hoping to curry favor with their European hosts. But upon returning to Japan, they discover that the Shoguns no longer wish to forge links with the West, nor will they tolerate the Christian religion. The seven-year mission has been in vain. Disgraced and tormented, the Samurai begin to identify deeply with the crucified Christ they formerly reviled. Based on historical fact, this is a powerful examination of the impact of external events on our deepest beliefs.

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A wry and sometimes bitter meditation on the nature of cultural values . . . Sensational events or powerful images are pictured rather than expressed, so that they come to resemble Japanese haiku. It is because of Endo s restraint that The Samurai is in the end so convincing. --Peter Ackroyd, Sunday Times

The kinds of shock experienced by the Samurai can be transposed into Endo's own coming to terms with the world outside Japan. He has been called the Japanese Graham Greene and indeed Greene is a great admirer. But Endo is really like no one else. --Anthony Thwaite, Observer

Genius . . . makes the imagination take wing. --Mail On Sunday

L'autore:

\Widely regarded as the most distinguished of contemporary Japanese writers and several times shortlisted for the Nobel Prize, Shusaku Endo (1923—1996) won many major literary prizes in his lifetime. His books have been translated into 28 languages and include Deep River, Foreign Studies, Scandal, Silence, The Sea and Poison, and Wonderful Fool.

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• Editore: Peter Owen Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0720613531
• ISBN 13: 9780720613537
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 272