
×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Temporarily Out of Stock Online
15.95
Out Of Stock
Overview
The acclaimed short stories of the master Japanese writer.
The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected by the author together with his translator, display the full range of Endo's talents in short fiction.
The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected by the author together with his translator, display the full range of Endo's talents in short fiction.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780811211420 |
---|---|
Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Publication date: | 10/28/1990 |
Series: | New Directions Revived Modern Classics Series |
Pages: | 176 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Shusaku Endo (1923–1996) is widely regarded as one of the most important Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. He won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novel Silence was recently made into a major film directed by Martin Scorsese.
Van C. Gessel is a professor of Japanese at Brigham Young University, and has a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. After joining the Church of Latter-day Saints in 1968, Gessel served as a missionary to Japan from 1970-71. He was given a lifetime achievement award from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture of Columbia University for his translations of modern Japanese fiction.
Van C. Gessel is a professor of Japanese at Brigham Young University, and has a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. After joining the Church of Latter-day Saints in 1968, Gessel served as a missionary to Japan from 1970-71. He was given a lifetime achievement award from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture of Columbia University for his translations of modern Japanese fiction.
Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
An acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for ...
An acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for
poetry, prostitutes, and drugs.A crucial link between romanticism and modernism, Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal figure in European literature and thought. His influence on modern ...
Showcasing another quirky side of the author best known for his monumental fantasy trilogy, Gormenghast, this ...
Showcasing another quirky side of the author best known for his monumental fantasy trilogy, Gormenghast, this
collection contains pieces recently discovered by the Peake family From the macabre to the brilliantly off-beat, Mervyn Peake's nonsense verse can, like marzipan, be enjoyed by ...
Representing the Huckleberry Finn of Italy, this is the most read classic in the country. ...
Representing the Huckleberry Finn of Italy, this is the most read classic in the country.
Presented in the form of a diary, its subject is a young boy's life in Turin following Unification in 1870. The narrator, Enrico, writes vividly ...
160 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most polarizing and ...
160 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most polarizing and
mysterious figures in American literature. Hailed as a genius and condemned as a mentally unstable alcoholic —often in the same breath —the genre pioneer has ...
Oscar Nemon (1906–1985) is one of the 20th century's greatest sculptors, as testified by his ...
Oscar Nemon (1906–1985) is one of the 20th century's greatest sculptors, as testified by his
iconic portraits of elder statesmen and major figures displayed all over the world. His flamboyant personality charmed those who came in contact with him, including Winston Churchill, ...
An imaginative novel recreating the life of Isidore Ducasse, the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont who ...
An imaginative novel recreating the life of Isidore Ducasse, the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont who
he died under mysterious circumstances in 1871. He left almost no clues to his existence, except the explosive, astonishing prose poem, Les Chants de Maldoror, ...
Recollections of Proust, Piaf, Colette, and a host of luminaries from Bohemian Paris For almost 50 years ...
Recollections of Proust, Piaf, Colette, and a host of luminaries from Bohemian Paris For almost 50 years
up until his death in 1963, Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to ...
In this brilliant adaptation of a novel by the 19th century Greek author Emmanuel Royidis, ...
In this brilliant adaptation of a novel by the 19th century Greek author Emmanuel Royidis,
Lawrence Durrell traces the remarkable history of a young woman who travelled across Europe in the ninth century disguised as a monk, acquired great learning, ...