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by Francis Mathy,Shusaku Endo
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Author: Francis Mathy,Shusaku Endo
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd (September 1, 2000)
Language: English
Pages: 237
ePub: 1606 kb
Fb2: 1196 kb
Rating: 4.1
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Category: Literature
Subcategory: History and Criticism
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Wonderful Fool (Peter Ow.has been added to your Basket. This satirical allegory, translated by Father Francis Murphy SJ, who also provides an Informative introduction, is beautifully presented with its representations of Hell, human suffering, the transformational power of forgiveness and, at the end, the ance of a white egret ‘flying across the rice fields, and slowly and gracefully climbing into the blue sky’ symbolizing Resurrection and Eternal.
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Wonderful Fool (おバカさん, Obaka-san) is a novel by the Japanese author Shusaku Endō, originally serialized in the newspaper Asahi Shimbun in 1959. The main character, Gaston Bonaparte (a relative to the famous Napoleon Bonaparte) arrives at the Yokohama seaport to visit an old pen friend of his living in Tokyo.
A Peter Owen Modern Classics. Before I began reading Wonderful Fool, I was a little lukewarm on modern Japanese literature. Wonderful Fool' is a story about people living a mudswamp life, and the fear some of them have of freeing themselves from it. All told through a simpleton who somehow always manages to inflict damages on people's dark(est) sides-relentlessly attacking their A warmhearted tyrant 'Mudswamp 'is a term coined by Shusaku Endo. I have read the classics like The Tale of Genji, and other classical works, and also some modern-ish authors, as well as Endo's Silence.
Shusaku Endo – Wonderful Fool By James Nye on August 25, 2015 in Authors Shusaku Endo Rumour has it that principal photography for director Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s masterpiece Silence is now complete, and postproduction work continues. It seems likely that the fi. husaku Endo – Wonderful Fool By James Nye on August 25, 2015 in Authors Shusaku Endo Rumour has it that principal photography for director Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s masterpiece Silence is now complete, and postproduction work continues
Wonderful Fool by Shusaku Endo (Paperback, 2008).
Wonderful Fool by Shusaku Endo (Paperback, 2008).
Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-pal Takamori. Wonderful Fool (Peter Owen Modern Classic). by 遠藤 周作 and Shūsaku Endō.
Wonderful Fool Peter Owen Modern Classics. Fiction, Fiction - General, Japanese Novel And Short Story, Literary, Modern fiction, Short Stories (single author).
Shusaku Endo is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late 20th century
Shusaku Endo is widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese authors of the late 20th century. He has won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times.
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