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A Life of Jesus
This paragraph comes on the final page of this life of Christ by Shusaku Endo a japanese catholic novelist or maybe that is a catholic japanese novelist or maybe again a japanese novelist who happened to be a catholic. I belabour the point because i think this is at the heart of Endo's work. He was a man proud of his heritage and sought to find a way of bringing the two into some form of co-operation. This book is a part of that attempt.
Endo the novelist creates an emminently readable account of the life of Jesus in which he imagines the figure of Christ walking and preaching and sharing his ultimately rejected creed of love above all things. He speculates and illustrates and shines his own particular light on that time in our history.
'heartbreaking loneliness carved his face in lines that made him look older than his years, and still the disciples failed to understand.'
This use by Endo of his imagination is supremely effective and cleverly ties in with little anomalies of detail that
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Jesus Christ, the Nobel Prize and Shusaku Endo
In , on the day when Kenzaburo Oe was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature — the second Japanese writer to receive the award — eminent literary scholar Donald Keene received a long-distance call from Peter Owen, publisher of novelist Shusaku Endo's works in London, demanding to know why the Swedish judges had not given the prize to Endo instead.
Owen had done everything he could to ensure Endo took the ultimate prize — including wooing the Swedish judges over lunch — and was sure that Endo would win. But it was not to be.
Why had Endo been snubbed by the Nobel Committee? Owen speculated that it was due to pressure from the Japanese themselves, because Endo had written about controversial subjects, such as the appalling vivisections conducted by the Japanese military in World War II on captured American airmen in his early novel, "The Sea and Poison." Or perhaps it was simply because Endo was a Catholic and thus always regarded as an outsider in Japan, where less than 1 percent of the population are Christian.
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Shusaku Endo beam Scandal
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Catholic Writings from Archipelago
alongside Kristopher H. Kowal
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