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Author : Shusaku Endo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231162821
"This translation is dedicated to the memory of Hondo Shun (1936-1997) a kind and gentle man who was nothing like his namesake in this novel."
Author : Shūsaku Endō
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231530835
Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to reconcile her feelings for Seikichi's religion with the sacrifices she makes to free him mirror the painful, conflicting choices Japan faced as a result of exposure to modernity and the West. Seikichi's persecution exemplifies Japan's insecurities, and Kiku's tortured yet determined spirit represents the nation's resilient soul. Set in the turbulent years of the transition from the shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, Kiku's Prayer embodies themes central to Endo Shusaku's work, including religion, modernization, and the endurance of the human spirit. Yet this novel is much more than a historical allegory. It acutely renders one woman's troubled encounter with passion and spirituality at a transitional time in her life and in the history of her people. A renowned twentieth-century Japanese author, Endo wrote from the perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared with that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers.
Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826335829
The first English edition of the work of one of Mexico's most admired women writers.
Author : Johann Ludwig Krapf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : African languages
ISBN : ONB:+Z196703808
Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015087525765
Author : Ernest Miles Hobart-Hampden,Sir Harold George Parlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1590 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015038918598
Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472136718
The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire firearms. They encouraged believers to cast aside their earthly allegiances and swear loyalty to a foreign god-emperor, before seeking paradise in terrible martyrdoms. The cult was in open revolt, led, it was said, by a boy sorcerer. Farmers claiming to have the blessing of an alien god had bested trained samurai in combat and proclaimed that fires in the sky would soon bring about the end of the world. The Shogun called old soldiers out of retirement for one last battle before peace could be declared in Japan. For there to be an end to war, he said, the Christians would have to die. This is a true story.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : China
ISBN : CORNELL:31924079487652
Author : Shūsaku Endō
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231552103
In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country. In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki—where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution—and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shūhei’s dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Endō’s compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels.
Author : Makoto Ueda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004137233
This book sketches the life and poetry of Kobayishi Issa, a major Japanese haiku poet, and tries to identify the sources of his bold individualism and all-embracing humanism in terms of his long and checkered carrier.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112100648689
Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231152815
"Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when it began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics as well as the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world."--Back cover.
Author : Iwasaburō Takano,Yooroku Yamazaki,F. Takano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English language
ISBN : UCBK:B000208057
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011809204
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Author : William Frederick Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UCD:31175029887257