Ebook {Epub PDF} Deep River by Shūsaku Endō

An interdisciplinary dialogue with Shūsaku Endō’s last novel offering new perspectives on Japanese culture, Christian doctrine, Hindu spiritualities, and Buddhist worldviews. In Navigating Deep River, Mark W. Dennis and Darren J. N. Middleton have curated a wide-ranging discussion of Shūsaku Endō’s final novel, Deep River, in which four careworn Japanese tourists journey to India’s holy Ganges in search . This novel by Shusaku Endo follows several Japanese tourists from their homeland to India and the holy waters of the Ganges river. The characters each face spiritual and moral crises in the course of the book. The author does an excellent job at intertwining the multiple story lines and setting the tone/5(). As Endō writes in the foreword to the English translation, one of the characters has a connection with Otsu, a character in Endo's later novel Deep River. Ryūgaku (留学, "Foreign Studies") () Three linked narratives chart the gulf between East and West. Evoking Paris in the s, 17th century Rome, and provincial France in the post-World War II years, Endō acutely conveys the alienation felt by .

Shūsaku Endō (遠藤 周作, Endō Shūsaku, Ma - Septem) was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese bltadwin.ruationally, he is known for his historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese. He was the laureate of several prestigious literary accolades, including. Shūsaku Endō and Flannery O'Connor on the grotesque / Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith ; Chapter eight. From "Catholic" to "catholic": arriving at Deep river / Maeri Megumi ; Chapter nine. Deep river as Endō's book of job: gathering a community of sufferers at the water's edge / Van C. Gessel ; Chapter ten. In Navigating Deep River, Mark W. Dennis and Darren J. N. Middleton have curated a wide-ranging discussion of Shūsaku Endō's final novel, Deep River, in which four careworn Japanese tourists journey to India's holy Ganges in search of spiritual as well as existential bltadwin.ruting Deep River evaluates and probes Endō's decades-long search to find the words to explain Transcendent.

In Deep River, author Shusaku Endo follows the paths of four Japanese people on a tour of India that, for each of them, is a pilgrimage. They are all on a journey to accomplish something they. Shusaku Endo's novel Deep River (深い河, or Fukai Kawa) follows a group of Japanese tourists on a tour of Buddhist sites in India. Each is searching for some form of spiritual understanding or healing. Isobe lost his wife years before and ruminates on reincarnation. In 'Deep River', Endo portrays life not as a quest for immortality (a little surprising given the religious scope of the work), nor as the pursuit of happiness, but as a searching for fulfillment. A disparate group of Japanese tourists each seek an answer to their troubles.