True Believer: Shusaku Endo

About This Novel

This book is a collection of literary criticism by Taiwanese scholar and writer Yang Zhao interpreting Endo Shusaku and his works. In this book, Yang Zhao starts from Endo Shusaku's special identity as a Catholic and explains his life experiences such as being forced to be baptized under the influence of his mother and breaking with his father when he was a teenager. He also uses several of his representative works "Silence", "Mother", "Sea and Poison", "Shadow", "Deep River" and "Samurai" as examples to analyze Endo Shusaku's reflections on "guilt" and "shame" in post-war Japanese society and his doubts about the values ​​of the Catholic Church. The manuscript is of good quality, highly knowledgeable, and backed by a large amount of literary materials. The language is fluent and easy to understand. Through Yang Zhao's explanation, readers can learn about Shusaku Endo, a heavyweight writer who is not well-known in China but who definitely occupies an important position in the Japanese literary world.

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