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Approaching Silence

Approaching Silence

Martin Scorsese
Mark Dennis

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1623562805
ISBN13: 9781623562809
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 26 2015
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists, often described as Japan's Graham Greene, and Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece.

Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the complexities of discipleship and martyrdom; the face of Christ; and, the bodhisattva ideal as well as the nature of suffering. It also frames Silence through a wider lens, comparing it to Endo's other works as well as to the fiction of other authors.

Approaching Silence promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West.

Includes an Afterword by Martin Scorsese on adapting Silence for the screen as well as the full text of Steven Dietz's play adaptation of Endo's novel.

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