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Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, Hepburn: Chinmoku) is a 1966 novel of theological and historical fiction by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō. It tells the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to 17th-century Japan, who endures persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion .
2 lip 2010 · Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ. Access-restricted-item. true.
Endō’s subsequent novel, Samurai, deals with the same intersection of Western-rooted Catholicism and Eastern Japanese culture that appears in Silence, though with a markedly lighter tone.
11 sie 2020 · 1 volume ; 20 cm. Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And I keep turning over in my mind the thought that I am at the end of the earth, in a place which you do not know and which your whole lives through you will never visit.
5 sty 2016 · Silence: A Novel. Shusaku Endo. St. Martins Press-3PL, Jan 5, 2016 - Fiction - 212 pages. Shusaku Endo's New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, now...
Silence here, the silence of God as cruelty happens is explored. We journey with Rodrigues as he hides from the authorities, as he communes with Japanese peasants, as he suffers personal losses and loses the romanticized ideals he had on life and faith.
16 wrz 2024 · Analysis of Shūsaku Endō’s Silence. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 16, 2024. Silence is the best known of this Japanese writer’s prolific production of novels exploring the apparent disparity between existential experience and theological doctrine.
