Shusaku Endo: at the river's edge.(Obituary)(Column)

Commonweal | November 8, 1996| | Copyright

With the recent death of Shusaku Endo, in Tokyo, at seventy-three, after a long struggle with hepatitis, Japan lost one of its foremost novelists, short-story writers, and playwrights. Endo's readers across the continents will surely feel deeply the departure of a major literary figure whose special interest and talent was to offer a repeated (and each time brilliantly original) consideration of our moral and spiritual fate as creatures of language, all too aware of the mere second of eternity granted us - at least biologically. For his Japanese compatriots, Endo was a learned ...

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